diff --git a/include/linux/nsproxy.h b/include/linux/nsproxy.h
index 0b9f0dc30d6..678e1d38eff 100644
--- a/include/linux/nsproxy.h
+++ b/include/linux/nsproxy.h
@@ -35,22 +35,30 @@ struct nsproxy *dup_namespaces(struct nsproxy *orig);
 int copy_namespaces(int flags, struct task_struct *tsk);
 void get_task_namespaces(struct task_struct *tsk);
 void free_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns);
+struct nsproxy *put_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns);
 
-static inline void put_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
+static inline void finalize_put_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
 {
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ns->count)) {
+	if (ns)
 		free_nsproxy(ns);
-	}
 }
 
-static inline void exit_task_namespaces(struct task_struct *p)
+static inline void put_and_finalize_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
 {
-	struct nsproxy *ns = p->nsproxy;
-	if (ns) {
-		task_lock(p);
-		p->nsproxy = NULL;
-		task_unlock(p);
-		put_nsproxy(ns);
-	}
+	finalize_put_nsproxy(put_nsproxy(ns));
+}
+
+static inline struct nsproxy *preexit_task_namespaces(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	return put_nsproxy(p->nsproxy);
+}
+
+static inline void exit_task_namespaces(struct task_struct *p,
+						struct nsproxy *ns)
+{
+	task_lock(p);
+	p->nsproxy = NULL;
+	task_unlock(p);
+	finalize_put_nsproxy(ns);
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 35401720635..a5bf5329ff9 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ void daemonize(const char *name, ...)
 	current->fs = fs;
 	atomic_inc(&fs->count);
 
-	exit_task_namespaces(current);
+	put_and_finalize_nsproxy(current->nsproxy);
 	current->nsproxy = init_task.nsproxy;
 	get_task_namespaces(current);
 
@@ -853,6 +853,7 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk)
 fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
 {
 	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
+	struct nsproxy *ns;
 	int group_dead;
 
 	profile_task_exit(tsk);
@@ -938,8 +939,9 @@ fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
 
 	tsk->exit_code = code;
 	proc_exit_connector(tsk);
+	ns = preexit_task_namespaces(tsk);
 	exit_notify(tsk);
-	exit_task_namespaces(tsk);
+	exit_task_namespaces(tsk, ns);
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	mpol_free(tsk->mempolicy);
 	tsk->mempolicy = NULL;
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index fc723e595cd..4cf868458f0 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 	return p;
 
 bad_fork_cleanup_namespaces:
-	exit_task_namespaces(p);
+	put_and_finalize_nsproxy(p->nsproxy);
 bad_fork_cleanup_keys:
 	exit_keys(p);
 bad_fork_cleanup_mm:
@@ -1711,7 +1711,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_unshare(unsigned long unshare_flags)
 	}
 
 	if (new_nsproxy)
-		put_nsproxy(new_nsproxy);
+		put_and_finalize_nsproxy(new_nsproxy);
 
 bad_unshare_cleanup_ipc:
 	if (new_ipc)
diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c
index f5b9ee6f6bb..7b05bce75cd 100644
--- a/kernel/nsproxy.c
+++ b/kernel/nsproxy.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ int copy_namespaces(int flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 		goto out_pid;
 
 out:
-	put_nsproxy(old_ns);
+	put_and_finalize_nsproxy(old_ns);
 	return err;
 
 out_pid:
@@ -135,6 +135,20 @@ out_ns:
 	goto out;
 }
 
+struct nsproxy *put_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
+{
+	if (ns) {
+		if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ns->count)) {
+			if (ns->mnt_ns) {
+				put_mnt_ns(ns->mnt_ns);
+				ns->mnt_ns = NULL;
+			}
+			return ns;
+		}
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 void free_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
 {
 	if (ns->mnt_ns)