diff --git a/lib/_http_server.js b/lib/_http_server.js
index 2c48ab9191846b..862b7c970bda8e 100644
--- a/lib/_http_server.js
+++ b/lib/_http_server.js
@@ -618,8 +618,6 @@ function resOnFinish(req, res, socket, state, server) {
   assert(state.incoming.length === 0 || state.incoming[0] === req);
 
   state.incoming.shift();
-  // Reset the .incoming property so that the request object can be gc'ed.
-  if (socket.parser) socket.parser.incoming = null;
 
   // If the user never called req.read(), and didn't pipe() or
   // .resume() or .on('data'), then we call req._dump() so that the
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-http-server-keepalive-end.js b/test/parallel/test-http-server-keepalive-end.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..1e3a44d368a020
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-http-server-keepalive-end.js
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const common = require('../common');
+const { createServer } = require('http');
+const { connect } = require('net');
+
+const server = createServer(common.mustCall((req, res) => {
+  req.on('end', common.mustCall());
+  res.end('hello world');
+}));
+
+server.unref();
+
+server.listen(0, common.mustCall(() => {
+
+  const client = connect(server.address().port);
+
+  const req = [
+    'POST / HTTP/1.1',
+    `Host: localhost:${server.address().port}`,
+    'Connection: keep-alive',
+    'Content-Length: 11',
+    '',
+    'hello world',
+    ''
+  ].join('\r\n');
+
+  client.end(req);
+}));