If it's unrelated, then maybe better do it in a separate patch.
I thought so but I didn't know whether it was a so-small change
that it didn't require its own patch or not. I will amend that.
Since this is only a very small allocation, I think it would be better to
use g_malloc() here and then simply remove the "if (info == NULL) ..." part.
I was thinking of always maintaining the semantics of the existing
code and since g_malloc() does not behave like malloc() on
error, I refrained from using g_malloc() anywhere, but of course
I'll do it since it's the better thing to do.
I will split the patches to a two-patch series regarding the
util/compactfd.c file (one for the style change and one for
changing the malloc() call into g_malloc()) and send them
again, is that ok?