bencode/decode.go      | 3 +++
 bencode/decode_test.go | 2 ++

diff --git a/bencode/decode.go b/bencode/decode.go
index 77ddd0d3d950c33b1e7c1c5ee31e3b470e782e2d..903dfe4a477abc2bb6dbbbc8ea6b3967fb7a4275 100644
--- a/bencode/decode.go
+++ b/bencode/decode.go
@@ -484,5 +484,8 @@ 		}
 
 		list = append(list, valuei)
 	}
+	if list == nil {
+		list = make([]interface{}, 0, 0)
+	}
 	return list
 }
diff --git a/bencode/decode_test.go b/bencode/decode_test.go
index 3cf5776f203f51a1a5eaa065f4138b347ce015ad..4f06f391a5f1070da83e73057071b55e087a39c8 100644
--- a/bencode/decode_test.go
+++ b/bencode/decode_test.go
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ 	{"29:unicode test проверка", "unicode test проверка"},
 	{"d1:ai5e1:b5:helloe", map[string]interface{}{"a": int64(5), "b": "hello"}},
 	{"li5ei10ei15ei20e7:bencodee",
 		[]interface{}{int64(5), int64(10), int64(15), int64(20), "bencode"}},
+	{"ldedee", []interface{}{map[string]interface{}{}, map[string]interface{}{}}},
+	{"le", []interface{}{}},
 }
 
 func TestRandomDecode(t *testing.T) {