From 17a8ac91e078532e0cbbe15234d84ef2e4543f7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Fackler <sfackler@palantir.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:22:00 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix conversion of empty vectors to Bytes

Closes #340
---
 src/bytes.rs | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/bytes.rs b/src/bytes.rs
index f8421ef..08ae3c7 100644
--- a/src/bytes.rs
+++ b/src/bytes.rs
@@ -709,6 +709,13 @@ impl From<&'static str> for Bytes {
 
 impl From<Vec<u8>> for Bytes {
     fn from(vec: Vec<u8>) -> Bytes {
+        // into_boxed_slice doesn't return a heap allocation for empty vectors,
+        // so the pointer isn't aligned enough for the KIND_VEC stashing to
+        // work.
+        if vec.is_empty() {
+            return Bytes::new();
+        }
+
         let slice = vec.into_boxed_slice();
         let len = slice.len();
         let ptr = slice.as_ptr();