diff --git a/lib/_stream_readable.js b/lib/_stream_readable.js
index c7b356ed4421b0..46afe5f33dee91 100644
--- a/lib/_stream_readable.js
+++ b/lib/_stream_readable.js
@@ -488,9 +488,9 @@ function onEofChunk(stream, state) {
   }
   state.ended = true;
 
-  if (state.sync && state.length) {
-    // if we are sync and have data in the buffer, wait until next tick
-    // to emit the data. otherwise we risk emitting data in the flow()
+  if (state.sync) {
+    // if we are sync, wait until next tick to emit the data.
+    // Otherwise we risk emitting data in the flow()
     // the readable code triggers during a read() call
     emitReadable(stream);
   } else {
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-stream-readable-object-multi-push-async.js b/test/parallel/test-stream-readable-object-multi-push-async.js
index 4babfd12a27084..17c84c7310e053 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-stream-readable-object-multi-push-async.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-stream-readable-object-multi-push-async.js
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ const BATCH = 10;
   });
 
   readable.on('end', common.mustCall(() => {
-    assert.strictEqual(nextTickPassed, false);
+    assert.strictEqual(nextTickPassed, true);
   }));
 }