diff --git a/lib/internal/fs/sync_write_stream.js b/lib/internal/fs/sync_write_stream.js
index 8fa5c56aaffc62..5fff43f43a76c9 100644
--- a/lib/internal/fs/sync_write_stream.js
+++ b/lib/internal/fs/sync_write_stream.js
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ ObjectSetPrototypeOf(SyncWriteStream, Writable);
 SyncWriteStream.prototype._write = function(chunk, encoding, cb) {
   writeSync(this.fd, chunk, 0, chunk.length);
   cb();
-  return true;
 };
 
 SyncWriteStream.prototype._destroy = function(err, cb) {
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-internal-fs-syncwritestream.js b/test/parallel/test-internal-fs-syncwritestream.js
index bafa5fd8f4624f..b93d3f01d875ee 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-internal-fs-syncwritestream.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-internal-fs-syncwritestream.js
@@ -36,7 +36,12 @@ const filename = path.join(tmpdir.path, 'sync-write-stream.txt');
   const stream = new SyncWriteStream(fd);
   const chunk = Buffer.from('foo');
 
-  assert.strictEqual(stream._write(chunk, null, common.mustCall(1)), true);
+  let calledSynchronously = false;
+  stream._write(chunk, null, common.mustCall(() => {
+    calledSynchronously = true;
+  }, 1));
+
+  assert.ok(calledSynchronously);
   assert.strictEqual(fs.readFileSync(filename).equals(chunk), true);
 
   fs.closeSync(fd);