diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/util/ParentClassLoader.java b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/util/ParentClassLoader.java
index e0eb8429e139f..8417f2281613f 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/util/ParentClassLoader.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/util/ParentClassLoader.java
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ public ParentClassLoader(ClassLoader myParent) {
 
     @Override
     public Class<?> findClass(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException {
-	return super.findClass(name);
+	return super.loadClass(name);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class<?> loadClass(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException {
+	return super.loadClass(name);
     }
 }
diff --git a/core/src/test/resources/classes2/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF b/core/src/test/resources/classes2/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..21d9cb5ec34ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/test/resources/classes2/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Manifest-Version: 1.0
+Implementation-Vendor: fake-spark-class
+Implementation-Title: fake spark class
+Implementation-Version: 0.0.1
+Implementation-Vendor-Id: fake-spark-class
+Specification-Vendor: fake-spark-class
+Specification-Title: fake spark class
+Specification-Version: 0.0.1
+
diff --git a/core/src/test/resources/classes2/org/apache/spark/test/FakeClass1.class b/core/src/test/resources/classes2/org/apache/spark/test/FakeClass1.class
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..31685294a6a00
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diff --git a/core/src/test/resources/classes2/org/apache/spark/test/FakeClass2.class b/core/src/test/resources/classes2/org/apache/spark/test/FakeClass2.class
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0babf0fe7085b
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diff --git a/core/src/test/resources/classes2/org/apache/spark/test/FakeClass3.class b/core/src/test/resources/classes2/org/apache/spark/test/FakeClass3.class
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..19aaf0a24d7f2
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diff --git a/core/src/test/resources/fake-spark-class-2.jar b/core/src/test/resources/fake-spark-class-2.jar
index 2c9b3493d6e28..3cb803cfce552 100644
Binary files a/core/src/test/resources/fake-spark-class-2.jar and b/core/src/test/resources/fake-spark-class-2.jar differ
diff --git a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/executor/ExecutorURLClassLoaderSuite.scala b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/executor/ExecutorURLClassLoaderSuite.scala
index 793b8b5db3e7c..a931ad9c926da 100644
--- a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/executor/ExecutorURLClassLoaderSuite.scala
+++ b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/executor/ExecutorURLClassLoaderSuite.scala
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ class ExecutorURLClassLoaderSuite extends FunSuite {
   val spark_home = sys.env.get("SPARK_HOME").orElse(sys.props.get("spark.home")).get
   val urls = List(new File(spark_home + "/core/src/test/resources/fake-spark-class.jar").toURI.toURL).toArray
   val urls2 = List(new File(spark_home + "/core/src/test/resources/fake-spark-class-2.jar").toURI.toURL).toArray
+
   test("child first") {
     val parentLoader = new URLClassLoader(urls2, null)
     val classLoader = new ChildExecutorURLClassLoader(urls, parentLoader)
@@ -42,4 +43,13 @@ class ExecutorURLClassLoaderSuite extends FunSuite {
     val fakeClassVersion = fakeClass.toString
     assert(fakeClassVersion === "2")
   }
+
+  test("child first can fall back") {
+    val parentLoader = new URLClassLoader(urls2, null)
+    val classLoader = new ChildExecutorURLClassLoader(urls, parentLoader)
+    val fakeClass = classLoader.loadClass("org.apache.spark.test.FakeClass3").newInstance()
+    val fakeClassVersion = fakeClass.toString
+    assert(fakeClassVersion === "2")
+  }
+
 }
diff --git a/repl/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/repl/ExecutorClassLoaderSuite.scala b/repl/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/repl/ExecutorClassLoaderSuite.scala
index fcf0fb7decf0b..e60c20b7522ea 100644
--- a/repl/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/repl/ExecutorClassLoaderSuite.scala
+++ b/repl/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/repl/ExecutorClassLoaderSuite.scala
@@ -43,4 +43,14 @@ class ExecutorClassLoaderSuite extends FunSuite {
     val fakeClassVersion = fakeClass.toString
     assert(fakeClassVersion === "2")
   }
+
+  test("child first can fall back") {
+    println("url1 "+url1)
+    val parentLoader = new URLClassLoader(urls2, null)
+    val classLoader = new ExecutorClassLoader(url1, parentLoader, true)
+    val fakeClass = classLoader.loadClass("org.apache.spark.test.FakeClass3").newInstance()
+    val fakeClassVersion = fakeClass.toString
+    assert(fakeClassVersion === "2")
+  }
+
 }