From e25c344c7833581f559a5a678a5b4259d0de3ec7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Nagy <ronagy@icloud.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 09:40:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] buffer: allow invalid encoding in from

Looks like a bug to me but the change should probably
done in a semver majpr.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/54533
---
 lib/buffer.js                     | 2 +-
 test/parallel/test-buffer-from.js | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/buffer.js b/lib/buffer.js
index 05b57275f03dca..4467a555c7180e 100644
--- a/lib/buffer.js
+++ b/lib/buffer.js
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ function createFromString(string, ops, length = ops.byteLength(string)) {
 
 function fromString(string, encoding) {
   let ops;
-  if (!encoding || encoding === 'utf8') {
+  if (!encoding || encoding === 'utf8' || typeof encoding !== 'string') {
     ops = encodingOps.utf8;
   } else {
     ops = getEncodingOps(encoding);
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-buffer-from.js b/test/parallel/test-buffer-from.js
index 284c63e7d02e8e..416a3b3a3105b5 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-buffer-from.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-buffer-from.js
@@ -139,3 +139,6 @@ throws(() => {
     code: 'ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE',
   })
 );
+
+// Invalid encoding is allowed
+Buffer.from('asd', 1);