diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
index 027c42bb1ab99afa2b7708f89331c59f2882f1a0..8536d38ef97e3f8b71b52b676190ac64512a14d6 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ static int pblk_line_init_metadata(struct pblk *pblk, struct pblk_line *line,
 	memcpy(smeta_buf->header.uuid, pblk->instance_uuid, 16);
 	smeta_buf->header.id = cpu_to_le32(line->id);
 	smeta_buf->header.type = cpu_to_le16(line->type);
-	smeta_buf->header.version = cpu_to_le16(1);
+	smeta_buf->header.version = SMETA_VERSION;
 
 	/* Start metadata */
 	smeta_buf->seq_nr = cpu_to_le64(line->seq_nr);
diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c
index cb556e06673e7465bf856cab8e3329867e676382..caf1242795757b202a25b824aa824d25baa5a333 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c
@@ -900,9 +900,9 @@ struct pblk_line *pblk_recov_l2p(struct pblk *pblk)
 		if (le32_to_cpu(smeta_buf->header.identifier) != PBLK_MAGIC)
 			continue;
 
-		if (le16_to_cpu(smeta_buf->header.version) != 1) {
+		if (smeta_buf->header.version != SMETA_VERSION) {
 			pr_err("pblk: found incompatible line version %u\n",
-					smeta_buf->header.version);
+					le16_to_cpu(smeta_buf->header.version));
 			return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 		}
 
diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h
index 67e623bd5c2df1f69fecd084def0d793da7eab7c..9ece409993fecfd866b7070512edf1ca3aaba81e 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ enum {
 };
 
 #define PBLK_MAGIC 0x70626c6b /*pblk*/
+#define SMETA_VERSION cpu_to_le16(1)
 
 struct line_header {
 	__le32 crc;