diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c
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+/*
+ *  Copyright (C) 2006 IBM Corporation
+ *
+ *  Author: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
+ *
+ *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ *  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ *  published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the
+ *  License.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/version.h>
+#include <linux/nsproxy.h>
+
+static inline void get_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
+{
+	atomic_inc(&ns->count);
+}
+
+void get_task_namespaces(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	struct nsproxy *ns = tsk->nsproxy;
+	if (ns) {
+		get_nsproxy(ns);
+	}
+}
+
+/*
+ * creates a copy of "orig" with refcount 1.
+ * This does not grab references to the contained namespaces,
+ * so that needs to be done by dup_namespaces.
+ */
+static inline struct nsproxy *clone_namespaces(struct nsproxy *orig)
+{
+	struct nsproxy *ns;
+
+	ns = kmalloc(sizeof(struct nsproxy), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (ns) {
+		memcpy(ns, orig, sizeof(struct nsproxy));
+		atomic_set(&ns->count, 1);
+	}
+	return ns;
+}
+
+/*
+ * copies the nsproxy, setting refcount to 1, and grabbing a
+ * reference to all contained namespaces.  Called from
+ * sys_unshare()
+ */
+struct nsproxy *dup_namespaces(struct nsproxy *orig)
+{
+	struct nsproxy *ns = clone_namespaces(orig);
+
+	return ns;
+}
+
+/*
+ * called from clone.  This now handles copy for nsproxy and all
+ * namespaces therein.
+ */
+int copy_namespaces(int flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	struct nsproxy *old_ns = tsk->nsproxy;
+
+	if (!old_ns)
+		return 0;
+
+	get_nsproxy(old_ns);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+void free_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
+{
+		kfree(ns);
+}