diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitDriverBootstrapper.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitDriverBootstrapper.scala
index d2687faad62b1..2eab9981845e8 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitDriverBootstrapper.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitDriverBootstrapper.scala
@@ -151,7 +151,8 @@ private[spark] object SparkSubmitDriverBootstrapper {
     val isWindows = Utils.isWindows
     val isSubprocess = sys.env.contains("IS_SUBPROCESS")
     if (!isWindows) {
-      val stdinThread = new RedirectThread(System.in, process.getOutputStream, "redirect stdin")
+      val stdinThread = new RedirectThread(System.in, process.getOutputStream, "redirect stdin",
+        propagateEof = true)
       stdinThread.start()
       // Spark submit (JVM) may run as a subprocess, and so this JVM should terminate on
       // broken pipe, signaling that the parent process has exited. This is the case if the
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/Utils.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/Utils.scala
index 8c00f2c36aed2..0d771baaa6abc 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/Utils.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/Utils.scala
@@ -1847,19 +1847,29 @@ private[spark] object Utils extends Logging {
 /**
  * A utility class to redirect the child process's stdout or stderr.
  */
-private[spark] class RedirectThread(in: InputStream, out: OutputStream, name: String)
+private[spark] class RedirectThread(
+    in: InputStream,
+    out: OutputStream,
+    name: String,
+    propagateEof: Boolean = false)
   extends Thread(name) {
 
   setDaemon(true)
   override def run() {
     scala.util.control.Exception.ignoring(classOf[IOException]) {
       // FIXME: We copy the stream on the level of bytes to avoid encoding problems.
-      val buf = new Array[Byte](1024)
-      var len = in.read(buf)
-      while (len != -1) {
-        out.write(buf, 0, len)
-        out.flush()
-        len = in.read(buf)
+      try {
+        val buf = new Array[Byte](1024)
+        var len = in.read(buf)
+        while (len != -1) {
+          out.write(buf, 0, len)
+          out.flush()
+          len = in.read(buf)
+        }
+      } finally {
+        if (propagateEof) {
+          out.close()
+        }
       }
     }
   }