diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c
index d476307..c0ef3a4 100644
--- a/kernel/user.c
+++ b/kernel/user.c
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@
 
 struct user_namespace init_user_ns = {
 	.kref = {
-		.refcount	= ATOMIC_INIT(2),
+		.refcount	= ATOMIC_INIT(1),
 	},
-	.root_user = &root_user,
+	.creator = &root_user,
 };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_user_ns);
 
@@ -48,12 +48,14 @@
  */
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(uidhash_lock);
 
+/* root_user.__count is 2, 1 for init task cred, 1 for init_user_ns->creator */
 struct user_struct root_user = {
-	.__count	= ATOMIC_INIT(1),
+	.__count	= ATOMIC_INIT(2),
 	.processes	= ATOMIC_INIT(1),
 	.files		= ATOMIC_INIT(0),
 	.sigpending	= ATOMIC_INIT(0),
 	.locked_shm     = 0,
+	.user_ns	= &init_user_ns,
 #ifdef CONFIG_USER_SCHED
 	.tg		= &init_task_group,
 #endif
@@ -314,12 +316,13 @@
  * IRQ state (as stored in flags) is restored and uidhash_lock released
  * upon function exit.
  */
-static inline void free_user(struct user_struct *up, unsigned long flags)
+static void free_user(struct user_struct *up, unsigned long flags)
 {
 	/* restore back the count */
 	atomic_inc(&up->__count);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags);
 
+	put_user_ns(up->user_ns);
 	INIT_WORK(&up->work, remove_user_sysfs_dir);
 	schedule_work(&up->work);
 }
@@ -335,13 +338,14 @@
  * IRQ state (as stored in flags) is restored and uidhash_lock released
  * upon function exit.
  */
-static inline void free_user(struct user_struct *up, unsigned long flags)
+static void free_user(struct user_struct *up, unsigned long flags)
 {
 	uid_hash_remove(up);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags);
 	sched_destroy_user(up);
 	key_put(up->uid_keyring);
 	key_put(up->session_keyring);
+	put_user_ns(up->user_ns);
 	kmem_cache_free(uid_cachep, up);
 }
 
@@ -357,7 +361,7 @@
 {
 	struct user_struct *ret;
 	unsigned long flags;
-	struct user_namespace *ns = current->nsproxy->user_ns;
+	struct user_namespace *ns = current_user()->user_ns;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&uidhash_lock, flags);
 	ret = uid_hash_find(uid, uidhashentry(ns, uid));
@@ -404,6 +408,8 @@
 		if (sched_create_user(new) < 0)
 			goto out_free_user;
 
+		new->user_ns = get_user_ns(ns);
+
 		if (uids_user_create(new))
 			goto out_destoy_sched;
 
@@ -427,7 +433,6 @@
 			up = new;
 		}
 		spin_unlock_irq(&uidhash_lock);
-
 	}
 
 	uids_mutex_unlock();
@@ -436,6 +441,7 @@
 
 out_destoy_sched:
 	sched_destroy_user(new);
+	put_user_ns(new->user_ns);
 out_free_user:
 	kmem_cache_free(uid_cachep, new);
 out_unlock:
@@ -443,33 +449,6 @@
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_USER_NS
-void release_uids(struct user_namespace *ns)
-{
-	int i;
-	unsigned long flags;
-	struct hlist_head *head;
-	struct hlist_node *nd;
-
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&uidhash_lock, flags);
-	/*
-	 * collapse the chains so that the user_struct-s will
-	 * be still alive, but not in hashes. subsequent free_uid()
-	 * will free them.
-	 */
-	for (i = 0; i < UIDHASH_SZ; i++) {
-		head = ns->uidhash_table + i;
-		while (!hlist_empty(head)) {
-			nd = head->first;
-			hlist_del_init(nd);
-		}
-	}
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags);
-
-	free_uid(ns->root_user);
-}
-#endif
-
 static int __init uid_cache_init(void)
 {
 	int n;