diff --git a/sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveScriptTransformationExec.scala b/sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveScriptTransformationExec.scala
index 2d1dfbf185830..832463e2512b5 100644
--- a/sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveScriptTransformationExec.scala
+++ b/sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveScriptTransformationExec.scala
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ private[hive] case class HiveScriptTransformationExec(
       outputSoi: StructObjectInspector,
       hadoopConf: Configuration): Iterator[InternalRow] = {
     new Iterator[InternalRow] with HiveInspectors {
-      var curLine: String = null
+      private var completed = false
       val scriptOutputStream = new DataInputStream(inputStream)
 
       val scriptOutputReader =
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ private[hive] case class HiveScriptTransformationExec(
       lazy val unwrappers = outputSoi.getAllStructFieldRefs.asScala.map(unwrapperFor)
 
       override def hasNext: Boolean = {
+        if (completed) {
+          return false
+        }
         try {
           if (scriptOutputWritable == null) {
             scriptOutputWritable = reusedWritableObject
@@ -85,6 +88,7 @@ private[hive] case class HiveScriptTransformationExec(
             if (scriptOutputReader != null) {
               if (scriptOutputReader.next(scriptOutputWritable) <= 0) {
                 checkFailureAndPropagate(writerThread, null, proc, stderrBuffer)
+                completed = true
                 return false
               }
             } else {
@@ -97,6 +101,7 @@ private[hive] case class HiveScriptTransformationExec(
                   // there can be a lag between EOF being written out and the process
                   // being terminated. So explicitly waiting for the process to be done.
                   checkFailureAndPropagate(writerThread, null, proc, stderrBuffer)
+                  completed = true
                   return false
               }
             }
diff --git a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveScriptTransformationSuite.scala b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveScriptTransformationSuite.scala
index 1018ae5b68895..9982dec7c1c60 100644
--- a/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveScriptTransformationSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveScriptTransformationSuite.scala
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.`lazy`.LazySimpleSerDe
 import org.scalatest.exceptions.TestFailedException
 
 import org.apache.spark.{SparkException, TestUtils}
+import org.apache.spark.sql.Row
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.{Attribute, AttributeReference, Expression}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.execution._
 import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
@@ -438,4 +439,21 @@ class HiveScriptTransformationSuite extends BaseScriptTransformationSuite with T
       assert(e2.contains("array<double> cannot be converted to Hive TypeInfo"))
     }
   }
+
+  test("SPARK-38075: ORDER BY with LIMIT should not add fake rows") {
+    withTempView("v") {
+      val df = Seq((1), (2), (3)).toDF("a")
+      df.createTempView("v")
+      checkAnswer(sql(
+        """
+          |SELECT TRANSFORM(a)
+          |  USING 'cat' AS (a)
+          |FROM v
+          |ORDER BY a
+          |LIMIT 10
+          |""".stripMargin),
+        identity,
+        Row("1") :: Row("2") :: Row("3") :: Nil)
+    }
+  }
 }