From 90a267188937c9f8d522fa6095a1ff8087fa8ee0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karl Skomski <karl@skomski.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 22:51:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] src: better error message on failed Buffer malloc

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2422
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
---
 src/node_buffer.cc | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/node_buffer.cc b/src/node_buffer.cc
index 76a733311b0..c8be5b5a448 100644
--- a/src/node_buffer.cc
+++ b/src/node_buffer.cc
@@ -408,8 +408,10 @@ void Create(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
   void* data;
   if (length > 0) {
     data = malloc(length);
-    if (data == nullptr)
-      return env->ThrowRangeError("invalid Buffer length");
+    if (data == nullptr) {
+      return env->ThrowRangeError(
+          "Buffer allocation failed - process out of memory");
+    }
   } else {
     data = nullptr;
   }