diff --git a/lib/internal/fs/promises.js b/lib/internal/fs/promises.js
index a6b50054774f4e..ccac60477ff83c 100644
--- a/lib/internal/fs/promises.js
+++ b/lib/internal/fs/promises.js
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ const {
 const { opendir } = require('internal/fs/dir');
 const {
   parseFileMode,
+  validateAbortSignal,
   validateBuffer,
   validateInteger,
   validateUint32
@@ -646,14 +647,17 @@ async function writeFile(path, data, options) {
     data = Buffer.from(data, options.encoding || 'utf8');
   }
 
+  validateAbortSignal(options.signal);
   if (path instanceof FileHandle)
     return writeFileHandle(path, data, options.signal);
 
-  const fd = await open(path, flag, options.mode);
   if (options.signal?.aborted) {
     throw new lazyDOMException('The operation was aborted', 'AbortError');
   }
-  return PromisePrototypeFinally(writeFileHandle(fd, data), fd.close);
+
+  const fd = await open(path, flag, options.mode);
+  const { signal } = options;
+  return PromisePrototypeFinally(writeFileHandle(fd, data, signal), fd.close);
 }
 
 async function appendFile(path, data, options) {
@@ -670,6 +674,10 @@ async function readFile(path, options) {
   if (path instanceof FileHandle)
     return readFileHandle(path, options);
 
+  if (options.signal?.aborted) {
+    throw lazyDOMException('The operation was aborted', 'AbortError');
+  }
+
   const fd = await open(path, flag, 0o666);
   return PromisePrototypeFinally(readFileHandle(fd, options), fd.close);
 }