diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index e608199..9d486b7 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <linux/fs_struct.h>	/* get_fs_root et.al. */
 #include <linux/fsnotify.h>	/* fsnotify_vfsmount_delete */
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 #include "pnode.h"
 #include "internal.h"
 
@@ -1251,6 +1252,26 @@
 #endif
 }
 
+static bool mnt_ns_loop(struct path *path)
+{
+	/* Could bind mounting the mount namespace inode cause a
+	 * mount namespace loop?
+	 */
+	struct inode *inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
+	struct proc_inode *ei;
+	struct mnt_namespace *mnt_ns;
+
+	if (!proc_ns_inode(inode))
+		return false;
+
+	ei = PROC_I(inode);
+	if (ei->ns_ops != &mntns_operations)
+		return false;
+
+	mnt_ns = ei->ns;
+	return current->nsproxy->mnt_ns->seq >= mnt_ns->seq;
+}
+
 struct mount *copy_tree(struct mount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry,
 					int flag)
 {
@@ -1593,6 +1614,10 @@
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
+	err = -EINVAL;
+	if (mnt_ns_loop(&old_path))
+		goto out; 
+
 	err = lock_mount(path);
 	if (err)
 		goto out;
@@ -2192,6 +2217,15 @@
 	return retval;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Assign a sequence number so we can detect when we attempt to bind
+ * mount a reference to an older mount namespace into the current
+ * mount namespace, preventing reference counting loops.  A 64bit
+ * number incrementing at 10Ghz will take 12,427 years to wrap which
+ * is effectively never, so we can ignore the possibility.
+ */
+static atomic64_t mnt_ns_seq = ATOMIC64_INIT(1);
+
 static struct mnt_namespace *alloc_mnt_ns(void)
 {
 	struct mnt_namespace *new_ns;
@@ -2199,6 +2233,7 @@
 	new_ns = kmalloc(sizeof(struct mnt_namespace), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!new_ns)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	new_ns->seq = atomic64_add_return(1, &mnt_ns_seq);
 	atomic_set(&new_ns->count, 1);
 	new_ns->root = NULL;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new_ns->list);
@@ -2633,3 +2668,63 @@
 {
 	return check_mnt(real_mount(mnt));
 }
+
+static void *mntns_get(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+	struct mnt_namespace *ns = NULL;
+	struct nsproxy *nsproxy;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	nsproxy = task_nsproxy(task);
+	if (nsproxy) {
+		ns = nsproxy->mnt_ns;
+		get_mnt_ns(ns);
+	}
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	return ns;
+}
+
+static void mntns_put(void *ns)
+{
+	put_mnt_ns(ns);
+}
+
+static int mntns_install(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *ns)
+{
+	struct fs_struct *fs = current->fs;
+	struct mnt_namespace *mnt_ns = ns;
+	struct path root;
+
+	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || !capable(CAP_SYS_CHROOT))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (fs->users != 1)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	get_mnt_ns(mnt_ns);
+	put_mnt_ns(nsproxy->mnt_ns);
+	nsproxy->mnt_ns = mnt_ns;
+
+	/* Find the root */
+	root.mnt    = &mnt_ns->root->mnt;
+	root.dentry = mnt_ns->root->mnt.mnt_root;
+	path_get(&root);
+	while(d_mountpoint(root.dentry) && follow_down_one(&root))
+		;
+
+	/* Update the pwd and root */
+	set_fs_pwd(fs, &root);
+	set_fs_root(fs, &root);
+
+	path_put(&root);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+const struct proc_ns_operations mntns_operations = {
+	.name		= "mnt",
+	.type		= CLONE_NEWNS,
+	.get		= mntns_get,
+	.put		= mntns_put,
+	.install	= mntns_install,
+};