diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c
index 8bdc34dbaedf..6ffa49fafb5c 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c
@@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ static int bm_rw(struct drbd_device *device, const unsigned int flags, unsigned
 		.done = 0,
 		.flags = flags,
 		.error = 0,
-		.kref = { ATOMIC_INIT(2) },
+		.kref = KREF_INIT(2),
 	};
 
 	if (!get_ldev_if_state(device, D_ATTACHING)) {  /* put is in drbd_bm_aio_ctx_destroy() */
diff --git a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
index f7b70b858157..411dcdec3db9 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
+++ b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ struct fuse_io_priv {
 
 #define FUSE_IO_PRIV_SYNC(f) \
 {					\
-	.refcnt = { ATOMIC_INIT(1) },	\
+	.refcnt = KREF_INIT(1),		\
 	.async = 0,			\
 	.file = f,			\
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h
index edbc8f653c10..171f68a43d1d 100644
--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ struct kref {
 	atomic_t refcount;
 };
 
+#define KREF_INIT(n)	{ .refcount = ATOMIC_INIT(n), }
+
 /**
  * kref_init - initialize object.
  * @kref: object in question.
diff --git a/init/version.c b/init/version.c
index fe41a63efed6..5606341e9efd 100644
--- a/init/version.c
+++ b/init/version.c
@@ -23,9 +23,7 @@ int version_string(LINUX_VERSION_CODE);
 #endif
 
 struct uts_namespace init_uts_ns = {
-	.kref = {
-		.refcount	= ATOMIC_INIT(2),
-	},
+	.kref = KREF_INIT(2),
 	.name = {
 		.sysname	= UTS_SYSNAME,
 		.nodename	= UTS_NODENAME,
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index 5fe7cdb6d05f..ccfdb56321c6 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -68,9 +68,7 @@ static inline int mk_pid(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns,
  * the scheme scales to up to 4 million PIDs, runtime.
  */
 struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns = {
-	.kref = {
-		.refcount       = ATOMIC_INIT(2),
-	},
+	.kref = KREF_INIT(2),
 	.pidmap = {
 		[ 0 ... PIDMAP_ENTRIES-1] = { ATOMIC_INIT(BITS_PER_PAGE), NULL }
 	},