diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/createDataSourceTables.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/createDataSourceTables.scala
index 9e3907996995..306f43dc4214 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/createDataSourceTables.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/createDataSourceTables.scala
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.catalog._
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical.LogicalPlan
 import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources._
 import org.apache.spark.sql.sources.BaseRelation
+import org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType
 
 /**
  * A command used to create a data source table.
@@ -85,14 +86,32 @@ case class CreateDataSourceTableCommand(table: CatalogTable, ignoreIfExists: Boo
       }
     }
 
-    val newTable = table.copy(
-      schema = dataSource.schema,
-      partitionColumnNames = partitionColumnNames,
-      // If metastore partition management for file source tables is enabled, we start off with
-      // partition provider hive, but no partitions in the metastore. The user has to call
-      // `msck repair table` to populate the table partitions.
-      tracksPartitionsInCatalog = partitionColumnNames.nonEmpty &&
-        sessionState.conf.manageFilesourcePartitions)
+    val newTable = dataSource match {
+      // Since Spark 2.1, we store the inferred schema of data source in metastore, to avoid
+      // inferring the schema again at read path. However if the data source has overlapped columns
+      // between data and partition schema, we can't store it in metastore as it breaks the
+      // assumption of table schema. Here we fallback to the behavior of Spark prior to 2.1, store
+      // empty schema in metastore and infer it at runtime. Note that this also means the new
+      // scalable partitioning handling feature(introduced at Spark 2.1) is disabled in this case.
+      case r: HadoopFsRelation if r.overlappedPartCols.nonEmpty =>
+        logWarning("It is not recommended to create a table with overlapped data and partition " +
+          "columns, as Spark cannot store a valid table schema and has to infer it at runtime, " +
+          "which hurts performance. Please check your data files and remove the partition " +
+          "columns in it.")
+        table.copy(schema = new StructType(), partitionColumnNames = Nil)
+
+      case _ =>
+        table.copy(
+          schema = dataSource.schema,
+          partitionColumnNames = partitionColumnNames,
+          // If metastore partition management for file source tables is enabled, we start off with
+          // partition provider hive, but no partitions in the metastore. The user has to call
+          // `msck repair table` to populate the table partitions.
+          tracksPartitionsInCatalog = partitionColumnNames.nonEmpty &&
+            sessionState.conf.manageFilesourcePartitions)
+
+    }
+
     // We will return Nil or throw exception at the beginning if the table already exists, so when
     // we reach here, the table should not exist and we should set `ignoreIfExists` to false.
     sessionState.catalog.createTable(newTable, ignoreIfExists = false)
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/HadoopFsRelation.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/HadoopFsRelation.scala
index 9a08524476ba..89d8a85a9cbd 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/HadoopFsRelation.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/HadoopFsRelation.scala
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 
 package org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources
 
+import java.util.Locale
+
 import scala.collection.mutable
 
 import org.apache.spark.sql.{SparkSession, SQLContext}
@@ -50,15 +52,22 @@ case class HadoopFsRelation(
 
   override def sqlContext: SQLContext = sparkSession.sqlContext
 
-  val schema: StructType = {
-    val getColName: (StructField => String) =
-      if (sparkSession.sessionState.conf.caseSensitiveAnalysis) _.name else _.name.toLowerCase
-    val overlappedPartCols = mutable.Map.empty[String, StructField]
-    partitionSchema.foreach { partitionField =>
-      if (dataSchema.exists(getColName(_) == getColName(partitionField))) {
-        overlappedPartCols += getColName(partitionField) -> partitionField
-      }
+  private def getColName(f: StructField): String = {
+    if (sparkSession.sessionState.conf.caseSensitiveAnalysis) {
+      f.name
+    } else {
+      f.name.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT)
+    }
+  }
+
+  val overlappedPartCols = mutable.Map.empty[String, StructField]
+  partitionSchema.foreach { partitionField =>
+    if (dataSchema.exists(getColName(_) == getColName(partitionField))) {
+      overlappedPartCols += getColName(partitionField) -> partitionField
     }
+  }
+
+  val schema: StructType = {
     StructType(dataSchema.map(f => overlappedPartCols.getOrElse(getColName(f), f)) ++
       partitionSchema.filterNot(f => overlappedPartCols.contains(getColName(f))))
   }
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLQuerySuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLQuerySuite.scala
index caf332d050d7..5d0bba69daca 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLQuerySuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SQLQuerySuite.scala
@@ -2741,4 +2741,20 @@ class SQLQuerySuite extends QueryTest with SharedSQLContext {
     assert (aggregateExpressions.isDefined)
     assert (aggregateExpressions.get.size == 2)
   }
+
+  test("SPARK-22356: overlapped columns between data and partition schema in data source tables") {
+    withTempPath { path =>
+      Seq((1, 1, 1), (1, 2, 1)).toDF("i", "p", "j")
+        .write.mode("overwrite").parquet(new File(path, "p=1").getCanonicalPath)
+      withTable("t") {
+        sql(s"create table t using parquet options(path='${path.getCanonicalPath}')")
+        // We should respect the column order in data schema.
+        assert(spark.table("t").columns === Array("i", "p", "j"))
+        checkAnswer(spark.table("t"), Row(1, 1, 1) :: Row(1, 1, 1) :: Nil)
+        // The DESC TABLE should report same schema as table scan.
+        assert(sql("desc t").select("col_name")
+          .as[String].collect().mkString(",").contains("i,p,j"))
+      }
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalogVersionsSuite.scala b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalogVersionsSuite.scala
index 5f8c9d579966..6859432c406a 100644
--- a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalogVersionsSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalogVersionsSuite.scala
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ class HiveExternalCatalogVersionsSuite extends SparkSubmitTestUtils {
   private val tmpDataDir = Utils.createTempDir(namePrefix = "test-data")
   // For local test, you can set `sparkTestingDir` to a static value like `/tmp/test-spark`, to
   // avoid downloading Spark of different versions in each run.
-  private val sparkTestingDir = Utils.createTempDir(namePrefix = "test-spark")
+  private val sparkTestingDir = new File("/tmp/test-spark")
   private val unusedJar = TestUtils.createJarWithClasses(Seq.empty)
 
   override def afterAll(): Unit = {
@@ -77,35 +77,38 @@ class HiveExternalCatalogVersionsSuite extends SparkSubmitTestUtils {
     super.beforeAll()
 
     val tempPyFile = File.createTempFile("test", ".py")
+    // scalastyle:off line.size.limit
     Files.write(tempPyFile.toPath,
       s"""
         |from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
+        |import os
         |
         |spark = SparkSession.builder.enableHiveSupport().getOrCreate()
         |version_index = spark.conf.get("spark.sql.test.version.index", None)
         |
         |spark.sql("create table data_source_tbl_{} using json as select 1 i".format(version_index))
         |
-        |spark.sql("create table hive_compatible_data_source_tbl_" + version_index + \\
-        |          " using parquet as select 1 i")
+        |spark.sql("create table hive_compatible_data_source_tbl_{} using parquet as select 1 i".format(version_index))
         |
         |json_file = "${genDataDir("json_")}" + str(version_index)
         |spark.range(1, 2).selectExpr("cast(id as int) as i").write.json(json_file)
-        |spark.sql("create table external_data_source_tbl_" + version_index + \\
-        |          "(i int) using json options (path '{}')".format(json_file))
+        |spark.sql("create table external_data_source_tbl_{}(i int) using json options (path '{}')".format(version_index, json_file))
         |
         |parquet_file = "${genDataDir("parquet_")}" + str(version_index)
         |spark.range(1, 2).selectExpr("cast(id as int) as i").write.parquet(parquet_file)
-        |spark.sql("create table hive_compatible_external_data_source_tbl_" + version_index + \\
-        |          "(i int) using parquet options (path '{}')".format(parquet_file))
+        |spark.sql("create table hive_compatible_external_data_source_tbl_{}(i int) using parquet options (path '{}')".format(version_index, parquet_file))
         |
         |json_file2 = "${genDataDir("json2_")}" + str(version_index)
         |spark.range(1, 2).selectExpr("cast(id as int) as i").write.json(json_file2)
-        |spark.sql("create table external_table_without_schema_" + version_index + \\
-        |          " using json options (path '{}')".format(json_file2))
+        |spark.sql("create table external_table_without_schema_{} using json options (path '{}')".format(version_index, json_file2))
+        |
+        |parquet_file2 = "${genDataDir("parquet2_")}" + str(version_index)
+        |spark.range(1, 3).selectExpr("1 as i", "cast(id as int) as p", "1 as j").write.parquet(os.path.join(parquet_file2, "p=1"))
+        |spark.sql("create table tbl_with_col_overlap_{} using parquet options(path '{}')".format(version_index, parquet_file2))
         |
         |spark.sql("create view v_{} as select 1 i".format(version_index))
       """.stripMargin.getBytes("utf8"))
+    // scalastyle:on line.size.limit
 
     PROCESS_TABLES.testingVersions.zipWithIndex.foreach { case (version, index) =>
       val sparkHome = new File(sparkTestingDir, s"spark-$version")
@@ -153,6 +156,7 @@ object PROCESS_TABLES extends QueryTest with SQLTestUtils {
       .enableHiveSupport()
       .getOrCreate()
     spark = session
+    import session.implicits._
 
     testingVersions.indices.foreach { index =>
       Seq(
@@ -194,6 +198,22 @@ object PROCESS_TABLES extends QueryTest with SQLTestUtils {
 
       // test permanent view
       checkAnswer(sql(s"select i from v_$index"), Row(1))
+
+      // SPARK-22356: overlapped columns between data and partition schema in data source tables
+      val tbl_with_col_overlap = s"tbl_with_col_overlap_$index"
+      // For Spark 2.2.0 and 2.1.x, the behavior is different from Spark 2.0.
+      if (testingVersions(index).startsWith("2.1") || testingVersions(index) == "2.2.0") {
+        spark.sql("msck repair table " + tbl_with_col_overlap)
+        assert(spark.table(tbl_with_col_overlap).columns === Array("i", "j", "p"))
+        checkAnswer(spark.table(tbl_with_col_overlap), Row(1, 1, 1) :: Row(1, 1, 1) :: Nil)
+        assert(sql("desc " + tbl_with_col_overlap).select("col_name")
+          .as[String].collect().mkString(",").contains("i,j,p"))
+      } else {
+        assert(spark.table(tbl_with_col_overlap).columns === Array("i", "p", "j"))
+        checkAnswer(spark.table(tbl_with_col_overlap), Row(1, 1, 1) :: Row(1, 1, 1) :: Nil)
+        assert(sql("desc " + tbl_with_col_overlap).select("col_name")
+          .as[String].collect().mkString(",").contains("i,p,j"))
+      }
     }
   }
 }