diff --git a/sql/hive/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/io/DelegateSymlinkTextInputFormat.java b/sql/hive/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/io/DelegateSymlinkTextInputFormat.java
index 25420f74f2f2f..e7c56edffe2ad 100644
--- a/sql/hive/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/io/DelegateSymlinkTextInputFormat.java
+++ b/sql/hive/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/io/DelegateSymlinkTextInputFormat.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.RecordReader;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Reporter;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat;
 
 /**
  * Delegate for SymlinkTextInputFormat, created to address SPARK-40815.
@@ -95,8 +96,18 @@ public void readFields(DataInput in) throws IOException {
   @Override
   public RecordReader<LongWritable, Text> getRecordReader(
       InputSplit split, JobConf job, Reporter reporter) throws IOException {
-    InputSplit targetSplit = ((DelegateSymlinkTextInputSplit) split).getSplit();
-    return super.getRecordReader(targetSplit, job, reporter);
+    DelegateSymlinkTextInputSplit delegateSplit = (DelegateSymlinkTextInputSplit) split;
+    InputSplit targetSplit = ((SymlinkTextInputSplit) delegateSplit.getSplit()).getTargetSplit();
+
+    // SPARK-40815: the code is derived from
+    // https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/io/SymlinkTextInputFormat.java
+    // However, we use the TextInputFormat record reader directly without HiveRecordReader to avoid
+    // ExecMapper.getDone() checks.
+
+    // The target data is in TextInputFormat.
+    TextInputFormat inputFormat = new TextInputFormat();
+    inputFormat.configure(job);
+    return inputFormat.getRecordReader(targetSplit, job, reporter);
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveSerDeReadWriteSuite.scala b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveSerDeReadWriteSuite.scala
index 05cd751d43483..aafc4764d2465 100644
--- a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveSerDeReadWriteSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveSerDeReadWriteSuite.scala
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets
 import java.nio.file.Files
 import java.sql.{Date, Timestamp}
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang3.{JavaVersion, SystemUtils}
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path
 import org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.{DelegateSymlinkTextInputFormat, SymlinkTextInputFormat}
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileSplit;
@@ -228,9 +227,6 @@ class HiveSerDeReadWriteSuite extends QueryTest with SQLTestUtils with TestHiveS
   }
 
   test("SPARK-40815: DelegateSymlinkTextInputFormat serialization") {
-    // Ignored due to JDK 11 failures reported in https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/38277.
-    assume(!SystemUtils.isJavaVersionAtLeast(JavaVersion.JAVA_9))
-
     def assertSerDe(split: DelegateSymlinkTextInputFormat.DelegateSymlinkTextInputSplit): Unit = {
       val buf = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
       val out = new DataOutputStream(buf)
@@ -266,9 +262,6 @@ class HiveSerDeReadWriteSuite extends QueryTest with SQLTestUtils with TestHiveS
   }
 
   test("SPARK-40815: Read SymlinkTextInputFormat") {
-    // Ignored due to JDK 11 failures reported in https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/38277.
-    assume(!SystemUtils.isJavaVersionAtLeast(JavaVersion.JAVA_9))
-
     withTable("t") {
       withTempDir { root =>
         val dataPath = new File(root, "data")
@@ -300,6 +293,12 @@ class HiveSerDeReadWriteSuite extends QueryTest with SQLTestUtils with TestHiveS
           (0 until 10).map(Row(_))
         )
 
+        // Verify limit since we bypass ExecMapper.getDone().
+        checkAnswer(
+          sql("SELECT id FROM t ORDER BY id ASC LIMIT 2"),
+          (0 until 2).map(Row(_))
+        )
+
         // Verify that with the flag disabled, we use the original SymlinkTextInputFormat
         // which has the empty splits issue and therefore the result should be empty.
         withSQLConf(