diff --git a/lib/_http_server.js b/lib/_http_server.js
index 5d25e459d84a48..d8b43ad5cbc459 100644
--- a/lib/_http_server.js
+++ b/lib/_http_server.js
@@ -822,12 +822,27 @@ const requestHeaderFieldsTooLargeResponse = Buffer.from(
   `HTTP/1.1 431 ${STATUS_CODES[431]}\r\n` +
   'Connection: close\r\n\r\n', 'ascii',
 );
+
+function warnUnclosedSocket() {
+  if (warnUnclosedSocket.emitted) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  warnUnclosedSocket.emitted = true;
+  process.emitWarning(
+    'An error event has already been emitted on the request. ' +
+    'Please use the destroy method on the socket while handling a clientError event.',
+  );
+}
+
 function socketOnError(e) {
   // Ignore further errors
   this.removeListener('error', socketOnError);
 
   if (this.listenerCount('error', noop) === 0) {
     this.on('error', noop);
+  } else {
+    warnUnclosedSocket();
   }
 
   if (!this.server.emit('clientError', e, this)) {
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-http-socket-error-listeners.js b/test/parallel/test-http-socket-error-listeners.js
index 5e712aa98ffc19..1108ac7ee27f1d 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-http-socket-error-listeners.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-http-socket-error-listeners.js
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+// Flags: --no-warnings
+
 'use strict';
 
 const common = require('../common');
@@ -15,8 +17,7 @@ const net = require('net');
 {
   let i = 0;
   let socket;
-  const mustNotCall = common.mustNotCall.bind(null);
-  process.on('warning', mustNotCall);
+  process.on('warning', common.mustCall());
 
   const server = http.createServer(common.mustNotCall());
 
@@ -41,7 +42,6 @@ const net = require('net');
 
     socket.on('close', () => {
       server.close();
-      process.removeListener('warning', mustNotCall);
     });
   });
 }