From 6de8e1665b11e3463b6aff90e82c712954edb181 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Feross Aboukhadijeh <feross@feross.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 22:57:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] construct new buffer from buffer toJSON() output (fix #37)

---
 index.js | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 746ecfd..1955cbc 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -61,9 +61,11 @@ function Buffer (subject, encoding, noZero) {
     if (encoding === 'base64')
       subject = base64clean(subject)
     length = Buffer.byteLength(subject, encoding)
-  } else if (type === 'object') // assume object is array-like
+  } else if (type === 'object' && subject !== null) { // assume object is array-like
+    if (subject.type === 'Buffer' && Array.isArray(subject.data))
+      subject = subject.data
     length = +subject.length > 0 ? Math.floor(+subject.length) : 0
-  else
+  } else
     throw new Error('First argument needs to be a number, array or string.')
 
   var buf
-- 
2.34.1