diff --git a/bson/_cbsonmodule.c b/bson/_cbsonmodule.c
index b706c35e30..51ad13a008 100644
--- a/bson/_cbsonmodule.c
+++ b/bson/_cbsonmodule.c
@@ -2512,8 +2512,8 @@ static PyObject* get_value(PyObject* self, PyObject* name, const char* buffer,
      * Wrap any non-InvalidBSON errors in InvalidBSON.
      */
     if (PyErr_Occurred()) {
-        PyObject *etype, *evalue, *etrace;
-        PyObject *InvalidBSON;
+        PyObject *etype = NULL, *evalue = NULL, *etrace = NULL;
+        PyObject *InvalidBSON = NULL;
 
         /*
          * Calling _error clears the error state, so fetch it first.
@@ -2585,8 +2585,8 @@ static int _element_to_dict(PyObject* self, const char* string,
     if (!*name) {
         /* If NULL is returned then wrap the UnicodeDecodeError
            in an InvalidBSON error */
-        PyObject *etype, *evalue, *etrace;
-        PyObject *InvalidBSON;
+        PyObject *etype = NULL, *evalue = NULL, *etrace = NULL;
+        PyObject *InvalidBSON = NULL;
 
         PyErr_Fetch(&etype, &evalue, &etrace);
         if (PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches(etype, PyExc_Exception)) {
diff --git a/pymongo/_cmessagemodule.c b/pymongo/_cmessagemodule.c
index 9c8fb550f2..b5adbeec32 100644
--- a/pymongo/_cmessagemodule.c
+++ b/pymongo/_cmessagemodule.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ struct module_state {
     PyObject* _max_bson_size_str;
     PyObject* _max_message_size_str;
     PyObject* _max_write_batch_size_str;
-    PyObject* _max_split_size_str; 
+    PyObject* _max_split_size_str;
 };
 
 /* See comments about module initialization in _cbsonmodule.c */