diff --git a/lib/fs.js b/lib/fs.js
index d733a0eaa57053..7c4e68358b33c2 100644
--- a/lib/fs.js
+++ b/lib/fs.js
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ function makeCallback(cb) {
   }
 
   return function() {
-    return cb.apply(null, arguments);
+    return cb.apply(undefined, arguments);
   };
 }
 
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-fs-mkdtemp.js b/test/parallel/test-fs-mkdtemp.js
index 5ce340afa5ad0f..38a306b85c7aa8 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-fs-mkdtemp.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-fs-mkdtemp.js
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ assert(common.fileExists(utf8));
 function handler(err, folder) {
   assert.ifError(err);
   assert(common.fileExists(folder));
-  assert.strictEqual(this, null);
+  assert.strictEqual(this, undefined);
 }
 
 fs.mkdtemp(path.join(common.tmpDir, 'bar.'), common.mustCall(handler));
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-fs-stat.js b/test/parallel/test-fs-stat.js
index 8a6bb1c6245431..332a26e9bff2e8 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-fs-stat.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-fs-stat.js
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ fs.open('.', 'r', undefined, common.mustCall(function(err, fd) {
   // Confirm that we are not running in the context of the internal binding
   // layer.
   // Ref: https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/463d6bac8b349acc462d345a6e298a76f7d06fb1
-  assert.strictEqual(this, null);
+  assert.strictEqual(this, undefined);
 }));
 
 // fstatSync