diff --git a/lib/fs.js b/lib/fs.js
index b6af9e25539b69..6362fab54a1c98 100644
--- a/lib/fs.js
+++ b/lib/fs.js
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ ReadFileContext.prototype.read = function() {
   req.oncomplete = readFileAfterRead;
   req.context = this;
 
-  binding.read(this.fd, buffer, offset, length, this.pos, req);
+  binding.read(this.fd, buffer, offset, length, -1, req);
 };
 
 ReadFileContext.prototype.close = function(err) {
@@ -447,11 +447,11 @@ function tryCreateBuffer(size, fd, isUserFd) {
   return buffer;
 }
 
-function tryReadSync(fd, isUserFd, buffer, pos, len, offset) {
+function tryReadSync(fd, isUserFd, buffer, pos, len) {
   var threw = true;
   var bytesRead;
   try {
-    bytesRead = fs.readSync(fd, buffer, pos, len, offset);
+    bytesRead = fs.readSync(fd, buffer, pos, len);
     threw = false;
   } finally {
     if (threw && !isUserFd) fs.closeSync(fd);
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ fs.readFileSync = function(path, options) {
 
   if (size !== 0) {
     do {
-      bytesRead = tryReadSync(fd, isUserFd, buffer, pos, size - pos, pos);
+      bytesRead = tryReadSync(fd, isUserFd, buffer, pos, size - pos);
       pos += bytesRead;
     } while (bytesRead !== 0 && pos < size);
   } else {
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ fs.readFileSync = function(path, options) {
       // the kernel lies about many files.
       // Go ahead and try to read some bytes.
       buffer = Buffer.allocUnsafe(8192);
-      bytesRead = tryReadSync(fd, isUserFd, buffer, 0, 8192, pos);
+      bytesRead = tryReadSync(fd, isUserFd, buffer, 0, 8192);
       if (bytesRead !== 0) {
         buffers.push(buffer.slice(0, bytesRead));
       }
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-fs-readfile-fd-offset.js b/test/parallel/test-fs-readfile-fd-offset.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a02685319369e..00000000000000
--- a/test/parallel/test-fs-readfile-fd-offset.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-'use strict';
-const common = require('../common');
-const assert = require('assert');
-const fs = require('fs');
-const path = require('path');
-
-const filename = path.join(common.tmpDir, 'readfile.txt');
-const dataExpected = 'a'.repeat(100);
-fs.writeFileSync(filename, dataExpected);
-const fileLength = dataExpected.length;
-
-['r', 'a+'].forEach((mode) => {
-  const fd = fs.openSync(filename, mode);
-  assert.strictEqual(fs.readFileSync(fd).length, fileLength);
-
-  // Reading again should result in the same length.
-  assert.strictEqual(fs.readFileSync(fd).length, fileLength);
-
-  fs.readFile(fd, common.mustCall((err, buf) => {
-    assert.ifError(err);
-    assert.strictEqual(buf.length, fileLength);
-  }));
-});