diff --git a/devices/devices.go b/devices/devices.go
index 5bf80e8c..8e86d952 100644
--- a/devices/devices.go
+++ b/devices/devices.go
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ func getDeviceNodes(path string) ([]*Device, error) {
 		switch {
 		case f.IsDir():
 			switch f.Name() {
-			case "pts", "shm", "fd":
+			case "pts", "shm", "fd", "mqueue":
 				continue
 			default:
 				sub, err := getDeviceNodes(filepath.Join(path, f.Name()))
diff --git a/mount/init.go b/mount/init.go
index ea2b7327..a2c3d520 100644
--- a/mount/init.go
+++ b/mount/init.go
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ func InitializeMountNamespace(rootfs, console string, sysReadonly bool, mountCon
 	return nil
 }
 
-// mountSystem sets up linux specific system mounts like sys, proc, shm, and devpts
+// mountSystem sets up linux specific system mounts like mqueue, sys, proc, shm, and devpts
 // inside the mount namespace
 func mountSystem(rootfs string, sysReadonly bool, mountConfig *MountConfig) error {
 	for _, m := range newSystemMounts(rootfs, mountConfig.MountLabel, sysReadonly) {
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ func newSystemMounts(rootfs, mountLabel string, sysReadonly bool) []mount {
 		{source: "proc", path: filepath.Join(rootfs, "proc"), device: "proc", flags: defaultMountFlags},
 		{source: "tmpfs", path: filepath.Join(rootfs, "dev"), device: "tmpfs", flags: syscall.MS_NOSUID | syscall.MS_STRICTATIME, data: label.FormatMountLabel("mode=755", mountLabel)},
 		{source: "shm", path: filepath.Join(rootfs, "dev", "shm"), device: "tmpfs", flags: defaultMountFlags, data: label.FormatMountLabel("mode=1777,size=65536k", mountLabel)},
+		{source: "mqueue", path: filepath.Join(rootfs, "dev", "mqueue"), device: "mqueue", flags: defaultMountFlags},
 		{source: "devpts", path: filepath.Join(rootfs, "dev", "pts"), device: "devpts", flags: syscall.MS_NOSUID | syscall.MS_NOEXEC, data: label.FormatMountLabel("newinstance,ptmxmode=0666,mode=620,gid=5", mountLabel)},
 	}