diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c
index f223c15..e2ce748 100644
--- a/kernel/nsproxy.c
+++ b/kernel/nsproxy.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/init_task.h>
 #include <linux/mnt_namespace.h>
 #include <linux/utsname.h>
+#include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
 
 struct nsproxy init_nsproxy = INIT_NSPROXY(init_nsproxy);
 
@@ -68,6 +69,8 @@
 			get_uts_ns(ns->uts_ns);
 		if (ns->ipc_ns)
 			get_ipc_ns(ns->ipc_ns);
+		if (ns->pid_ns)
+			get_pid_ns(ns->pid_ns);
 	}
 
 	return ns;
@@ -111,10 +114,17 @@
 	if (err)
 		goto out_ipc;
 
+	err = copy_pid_ns(flags, tsk);
+	if (err)
+		goto out_pid;
+
 out:
 	put_nsproxy(old_ns);
 	return err;
 
+out_pid:
+	if (new_ns->ipc_ns)
+		put_ipc_ns(new_ns->ipc_ns);
 out_ipc:
 	if (new_ns->uts_ns)
 		put_uts_ns(new_ns->uts_ns);
@@ -129,11 +139,13 @@
 
 void free_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
 {
-		if (ns->mnt_ns)
-			put_mnt_ns(ns->mnt_ns);
-		if (ns->uts_ns)
-			put_uts_ns(ns->uts_ns);
-		if (ns->ipc_ns)
-			put_ipc_ns(ns->ipc_ns);
-		kfree(ns);
+	if (ns->mnt_ns)
+		put_mnt_ns(ns->mnt_ns);
+	if (ns->uts_ns)
+		put_uts_ns(ns->uts_ns);
+	if (ns->ipc_ns)
+		put_ipc_ns(ns->ipc_ns);
+	if (ns->pid_ns)
+		put_pid_ns(ns->pid_ns);
+	kfree(ns);
 }
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index 25807e1..5319b9f 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@
  * the scheme scales to up to 4 million PIDs, runtime.
  */
 struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns = {
+	.kref = {
+		.refcount       = ATOMIC_INIT(2),
+	},
 	.pidmap = {
 		[ 0 ... PIDMAP_ENTRIES-1] = { ATOMIC_INIT(BITS_PER_PAGE), NULL }
 	},
@@ -356,6 +359,26 @@
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(find_get_pid);
 
+int copy_pid_ns(int flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	struct pid_namespace *old_ns = tsk->nsproxy->pid_ns;
+	int err = 0;
+
+	if (!old_ns)
+		return 0;
+
+	get_pid_ns(old_ns);
+	return err;
+}
+
+void free_pid_ns(struct kref *kref)
+{
+	struct pid_namespace *ns;
+
+	ns = container_of(kref, struct pid_namespace, kref);
+	kfree(ns);
+}
+
 /*
  * The pid hash table is scaled according to the amount of memory in the
  * machine.  From a minimum of 16 slots up to 4096 slots at one gigabyte or