diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/layers/rnn.py b/python/paddle/fluid/layers/rnn.py
index 2f11603d484fa571f736c0e186fd5a3fd02106b7..6e1f91a1f28ebd9bad1a8961f2a2b248fcde21f5 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/layers/rnn.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/layers/rnn.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import sys
 from functools import partial, reduce
 
 import paddle
+from paddle.utils import deprecated
 from . import nn
 from . import tensor
 from . import control_flow
@@ -2418,6 +2419,10 @@ def dynamic_lstm(input,
     return hidden, cell
 
 
+@deprecated(
+    since='2.0.0',
+    update_to='paddle.nn.LSTM',
+    reason="This API may occur CUDNN errors.")
 def lstm(input,
          init_h,
          init_c,