diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/ResultTask.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/ResultTask.scala
index 857c89d7a98f5..e717f4041df10 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/ResultTask.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/scheduler/ResultTask.scala
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import java.util.Properties
 import org.apache.spark._
 import org.apache.spark.broadcast.Broadcast
 import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
+import org.apache.spark.util.CompletionIterator
 
 /**
  * A task that sends back the output to the driver application.
@@ -87,7 +88,15 @@ private[spark] class ResultTask[T, U](
       threadMXBean.getCurrentThreadCpuTime - deserializeStartCpuTime
     } else 0L
 
-    func(context, rdd.iterator(partition, context))
+    val iter = rdd.iterator(partition, context).asInstanceOf[InterruptibleIterator[T]]
+    val res = func(context, iter)
+    // SPARK-27568: operations like take() could not consume all elements when func() finished,
+    // which would lead to readLock on block leaked. So, we manually call completion() for
+    // those operations here.
+    if (iter.hasNext && iter.delegate.isInstanceOf[CompletionIterator[T, Iterator[T]]]) {
+      iter.delegate.asInstanceOf[CompletionIterator[T, Iterator[T]]].completion()
+    }
+    res
   }
 
   // This is only callable on the driver side.
diff --git a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContextSuite.scala b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContextSuite.scala
index 3490eaf550ce6..4573f82808ac8 100644
--- a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContextSuite.scala
+++ b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContextSuite.scala
@@ -731,6 +731,17 @@ class SparkContextSuite extends SparkFunSuite with LocalSparkContext with Eventu
       resetSparkContext()
     }
   }
+
+  test("SPARK-27568: call take()/first() on a cached rdd should not leak readLock on the block") {
+    val conf = new SparkConf()
+      .setAppName("test")
+      .setMaster("local")
+      .set("spark.storage.exceptionOnPinLeak", "true")
+    sc = new SparkContext(conf)
+    // No exception, no pin leak
+    assert(sc.parallelize(Range(0, 10), 1).cache().take(1).head === 0)
+    assert(sc.parallelize(Range(0, 10), 1).cache().first() === 0)
+  }
 }
 
 object SparkContextSuite {