diff --git a/lib/_http_client.js b/lib/_http_client.js
index 4b7c755d634a55..98782e56e8ec25 100644
--- a/lib/_http_client.js
+++ b/lib/_http_client.js
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ ClientRequest.prototype.onSocket = function onSocket(socket) {
 function onSocketNT(req, socket) {
   if (req.aborted) {
     // If we were aborted while waiting for a socket, skip the whole thing.
-    if (req.socketPath || !req.agent) {
+    if (!req.agent) {
       socket.destroy();
     } else {
       socket.emit('free');
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-http-abort-queued-2.js b/test/parallel/test-http-client-abort-keep-alive-queued-tcp-socket.js
similarity index 100%
rename from test/parallel/test-http-abort-queued-2.js
rename to test/parallel/test-http-client-abort-keep-alive-queued-tcp-socket.js
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-http-client-abort-keep-alive-queued-unix-socket.js b/test/parallel/test-http-client-abort-keep-alive-queued-unix-socket.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..efcbfe8dc5846f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-http-client-abort-keep-alive-queued-unix-socket.js
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+'use strict';
+const common = require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const http = require('http');
+
+let socketsCreated = 0;
+
+class Agent extends http.Agent {
+  createConnection(options, oncreate) {
+    const socket = super.createConnection(options, oncreate);
+    socketsCreated++;
+    return socket;
+  }
+}
+
+const server = http.createServer((req, res) => res.end());
+
+const socketPath = common.PIPE;
+common.refreshTmpDir();
+
+server.listen(socketPath, common.mustCall(() => {
+  const agent = new Agent({
+    keepAlive: true,
+    maxSockets: 1
+  });
+
+  http.get({ agent, socketPath }, (res) => res.resume());
+
+  const req = http.get({ agent, socketPath }, common.mustNotCall());
+  req.abort();
+
+  http.get({ agent, socketPath }, common.mustCall((res) => {
+    res.resume();
+    assert.strictEqual(socketsCreated, 1);
+    agent.destroy();
+    server.close();
+  }));
+}));