stream: make null an invalid chunk to write in object mode

this harmonizes behavior between readable, writable, and transform
streams so that they all handle nulls in object mode the same way by
considering them invalid chunks.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6170
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>

lib/_stream_writable.js

@@ -176,13 +176,19 @@ function writeAfterEnd(stream, cb) {
 // how many bytes or characters.
 function validChunk(stream, state, chunk, cb) {
   var valid = true;
-
+  var er = false;
-  if (!(chunk instanceof Buffer) &&
+  // Always throw error if a null is written
+  // if we are not in object mode then throw
+  // if it is not a buffer, string, or undefined.
+  if (chunk === null) {
+    er = new TypeError('May not write null values to stream');
+  } else if (!(chunk instanceof Buffer) &&
       typeof chunk !== 'string' &&
-      chunk !== null &&
       chunk !== undefined &&
       !state.objectMode) {
-    var er = new TypeError('Invalid non-string/buffer chunk');
+    er = new TypeError('Invalid non-string/buffer chunk');
+  }
+  if (er) {
     stream.emit('error', er);
     process.nextTick(cb, er);
     valid = false;

test/parallel/test-stream-writable-null.js

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+'use strict';
+require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+
+const stream = require('stream');
+const util = require('util');
+
+function MyWritable(options) {
+  stream.Writable.call(this, options);
+}
+
+util.inherits(MyWritable, stream.Writable);
+
+MyWritable.prototype._write = function(chunk, encoding, callback) {
+  assert.notStrictEqual(chunk, null);
+  callback();
+};
+
+assert.throws(() => {
+  var m = new MyWritable({objectMode: true});
+  m.write(null, (err) => assert.ok(err));
+}, TypeError, 'May not write null values to stream');
+assert.doesNotThrow(() => {
+  var m = new MyWritable({objectMode: true}).on('error', (e) => {
+    assert.ok(e);
+  });
+  m.write(null, (err) => {
+    assert.ok(err);
+  });
+});
+
+assert.throws(() => {
+  var m = new MyWritable();
+  m.write(false, (err) => assert.ok(err));
+}, TypeError, 'Invalid non-string/buffer chunk');
+assert.doesNotThrow(() => {
+  var m = new MyWritable().on('error', (e) => {
+    assert.ok(e);
+  });
+  m.write(false, (err) => {
+    assert.ok(err);
+  });
+});
+
+assert.doesNotThrow(() => {
+  var m = new MyWritable({objectMode: true});
+  m.write(false, (err) => assert.ifError(err));
+});
+assert.doesNotThrow(() => {
+  var m = new MyWritable({objectMode: true}).on('error', (e) => {
+    assert.ifError(e || new Error('should not get here'));
+  });
+  m.write(false, (err) => {
+    assert.ifError(err);
+  });
+});