[PATCH 1/2] cli/config: allocate config using talloc_zero

Jani Nikula jani at nikula.org
Sat Dec 17 08:20:26 PST 2016


Do not initialize each field separately. It's more robust to allocate
the config with zero initialization, and only set the non-zero
defaults individually.
---
 notmuch-config.c | 20 ++++----------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/notmuch-config.c b/notmuch-config.c
index cdb4088d1535..6d50be4c3150 100644
--- a/notmuch-config.c
+++ b/notmuch-config.c
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ notmuch_config_open (void *ctx,
     int file_had_search_group;
     int file_had_crypto_group;
 
-    notmuch_config_t *config = talloc (ctx, notmuch_config_t);
+    notmuch_config_t *config = talloc_zero (ctx, notmuch_config_t);
     if (config == NULL) {
 	fprintf (stderr, "Out of memory.\n");
 	return NULL;
@@ -342,6 +342,9 @@ notmuch_config_open (void *ctx,
     
     talloc_set_destructor (config, notmuch_config_destructor);
 
+    /* non-zero defaults */
+    config->maildir_synchronize_flags = TRUE;
+
     if (filename) {
 	config->filename = talloc_strdup (config, filename);
     } else if ((notmuch_config_env = getenv ("NOTMUCH_CONFIG"))) {
@@ -353,21 +356,6 @@ notmuch_config_open (void *ctx,
 
     config->key_file = g_key_file_new ();
 
-    config->is_new = FALSE;
-    config->database_path = NULL;
-    config->user_name = NULL;
-    config->user_primary_email = NULL;
-    config->user_other_email = NULL;
-    config->user_other_email_length = 0;
-    config->new_tags = NULL;
-    config->new_tags_length = 0;
-    config->new_ignore = NULL;
-    config->new_ignore_length = 0;
-    config->maildir_synchronize_flags = TRUE;
-    config->search_exclude_tags = NULL;
-    config->search_exclude_tags_length = 0;
-    config->crypto_gpg_path = NULL;
-
     if (! get_config_from_file (config, create_new)) {
 	talloc_free (config);
 	return NULL;
-- 
2.10.2



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