diff --git a/lib/internal/fs/promises.js b/lib/internal/fs/promises.js
index bec0b5ebbc64e2..1f81a6f47b1d59 100644
--- a/lib/internal/fs/promises.js
+++ b/lib/internal/fs/promises.js
@@ -322,8 +322,19 @@ async function open(path, flags, mode) {
                                  flagsNumber, mode, kUsePromises));
 }
 
-async function read(handle, buffer, offset, length, position) {
-  validateBuffer(buffer);
+async function read(handle, bufferOrOptions, offset, length, position) {
+  let buffer = bufferOrOptions;
+  if (!isArrayBufferView(buffer)) {
+    if (bufferOrOptions.buffer) {
+      buffer = bufferOrOptions.buffer;
+      validateBuffer(buffer);
+    } else {
+      buffer = Buffer.alloc(16384);
+    }
+    offset = bufferOrOptions.offset || 0;
+    length = buffer.length;
+    position = bufferOrOptions.position || null;
+  }
 
   if (offset == null) {
     offset = 0;
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-fs-promises-file-handle-read.js b/test/parallel/test-fs-promises-file-handle-read.js
index 5ba7fc63e3f44d..44c35840f283ed 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-fs-promises-file-handle-read.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-fs-promises-file-handle-read.js
@@ -13,7 +13,11 @@ const tmpdir = require('../common/tmpdir');
 const assert = require('assert');
 const tmpDir = tmpdir.path;
 
-tmpdir.refresh();
+async function read(fileHandle, buffer, offset, length, position) {
+  return useConf ?
+    fileHandle.read({ buffer, offset, length, position }) :
+    fileHandle.read(buffer, offset, length, position);
+}
 
 async function validateRead() {
   const filePath = path.resolve(tmpDir, 'tmp-read-file.txt');
@@ -23,7 +27,7 @@ async function validateRead() {
   const fd = fs.openSync(filePath, 'w+');
   fs.writeSync(fd, buffer, 0, buffer.length);
   fs.closeSync(fd);
-  const readAsyncHandle = await fileHandle.read(Buffer.alloc(11), 0, 11, 0);
+  const readAsyncHandle = await read(fileHandle, Buffer.alloc(11), 0, 11, 0);
   assert.deepStrictEqual(buffer.length, readAsyncHandle.bytesRead);
   assert.deepStrictEqual(buffer, readAsyncHandle.buffer);
 
@@ -38,7 +42,7 @@ async function validateEmptyRead() {
   const fd = fs.openSync(filePath, 'w+');
   fs.writeSync(fd, buffer, 0, buffer.length);
   fs.closeSync(fd);
-  const readAsyncHandle = await fileHandle.read(Buffer.alloc(11), 0, 11, 0);
+  const readAsyncHandle = await read(fileHandle, Buffer.alloc(11), 0, 11, 0);
   assert.deepStrictEqual(buffer.length, readAsyncHandle.bytesRead);
 
   await fileHandle.close();
@@ -51,12 +55,21 @@ async function validateLargeRead() {
   const filePath = fixtures.path('x.txt');
   const fileHandle = await open(filePath, 'r');
   const pos = 0xffffffff + 1; // max-uint32 + 1
-  const readHandle = await fileHandle.read(Buffer.alloc(1), 0, 1, pos);
+  const readHandle = await read(fileHandle, Buffer.alloc(1), 0, 1, pos);
 
   assert.strictEqual(readHandle.bytesRead, 0);
 }
 
-validateRead()
-  .then(validateEmptyRead)
-  .then(validateLargeRead)
-  .then(common.mustCall());
+let useConf = false;
+
+(async function() {
+  for (const value of [false, true]) {
+    tmpdir.refresh();
+    useConf = value;
+
+    await validateRead()
+          .then(validateEmptyRead)
+          .then(validateLargeRead)
+          .then(common.mustCall());
+  }
+});