This is a poor place for it, and it will likely move again in the
future, but it's better to have it here than as a static variable.

Initialization of this variable is now no longer necessary as its
zeroed on creation of the payload struct.

Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>