diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index 8f91c9e0663d49..0bb60c2baafe6e 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
     # Reset this number to 0 on major V8 upgrades.
     # Increment by one for each non-official patch applied to deps/v8.
-    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.6',
+    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.7',
 
     # Enable disassembler for `--print-code` v8 options
     'v8_enable_disassembler': 1,
diff --git a/deps/v8/src/libplatform/tracing/tracing-controller.cc b/deps/v8/src/libplatform/tracing/tracing-controller.cc
index 647306d62790af..b4aa7baf724d4f 100644
--- a/deps/v8/src/libplatform/tracing/tracing-controller.cc
+++ b/deps/v8/src/libplatform/tracing/tracing-controller.cc
@@ -24,18 +24,17 @@ namespace tracing {
 // convert internally to determine the category name from the char enabled
 // pointer.
 const char* g_category_groups[MAX_CATEGORY_GROUPS] = {
-    "toplevel", "tracing already shutdown",
+    "toplevel",
     "tracing categories exhausted; must increase MAX_CATEGORY_GROUPS",
     "__metadata"};
 
 // The enabled flag is char instead of bool so that the API can be used from C.
 unsigned char g_category_group_enabled[MAX_CATEGORY_GROUPS] = {0};
 // Indexes here have to match the g_category_groups array indexes above.
-const int g_category_already_shutdown = 1;
-const int g_category_categories_exhausted = 2;
+const int g_category_categories_exhausted = 1;
 // Metadata category not used in V8.
-// const int g_category_metadata = 3;
-const int g_num_builtin_categories = 4;
+// const int g_category_metadata = 2;
+const int g_num_builtin_categories = 3;
 
 // Skip default categories.
 v8::base::AtomicWord g_category_index = g_num_builtin_categories;
@@ -103,10 +102,6 @@ void TracingController::UpdateTraceEventDuration(
 
 const uint8_t* TracingController::GetCategoryGroupEnabled(
     const char* category_group) {
-  if (!trace_buffer_) {
-    DCHECK(!g_category_group_enabled[g_category_already_shutdown]);
-    return &g_category_group_enabled[g_category_already_shutdown];
-  }
   return GetCategoryGroupEnabledInternal(category_group);
 }