diff --git a/daemon/execdriver/lxc/lxc_template.go b/daemon/execdriver/lxc/lxc_template.go
index 7fdc5ce92b..d40b316768 100644
--- a/daemon/execdriver/lxc/lxc_template.go
+++ b/daemon/execdriver/lxc/lxc_template.go
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ lxc.pivotdir = lxc_putold
 # We cannot mount them directly read-only, because that would prevent loading AppArmor profiles.
 lxc.mount.entry = proc {{escapeFstabSpaces $ROOTFS}}/proc proc nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
 lxc.mount.entry = sysfs {{escapeFstabSpaces $ROOTFS}}/sys sysfs nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
+lxc.mount.entry = tmpfs {{escapeFstabSpaces $ROOTFS}}/run tmpfs nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
 
 {{if .Tty}}
 lxc.mount.entry = {{.Console}} {{escapeFstabSpaces $ROOTFS}}/dev/console none bind,rw 0 0
diff --git a/graph/graph.go b/graph/graph.go
index b889139121..5de9cbe7a1 100644
--- a/graph/graph.go
+++ b/graph/graph.go
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ func SetupInitLayer(initLayer string) error {
 		"/dev/pts":         "dir",
 		"/dev/shm":         "dir",
 		"/proc":            "dir",
+		"/run":             "dir",
 		"/sys":             "dir",
 		"/.dockerinit":     "file",
 		"/.dockerenv":      "file",
diff --git a/pkg/libcontainer/mount/init.go b/pkg/libcontainer/mount/init.go
index 4d11cc819a..12f833a966 100644
--- a/pkg/libcontainer/mount/init.go
+++ b/pkg/libcontainer/mount/init.go
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ func newSystemMounts(rootfs, mountLabel string, mounts libcontainer.Mounts) []mo
 		{source: "sysfs", path: filepath.Join(rootfs, "sys"), device: "sysfs", flags: defaultMountFlags},
 		{source: "shm", path: filepath.Join(rootfs, "dev", "shm"), device: "tmpfs", flags: defaultMountFlags, data: label.FormatMountLabel("mode=1777,size=65536k", mountLabel)},
 		{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)},
+		{source: "tmpfs", path: filepath.Join(rootfs, "run"), device: "tmpfs", flags: defaultMountFlags},
 	}
 
 	if len(mounts.OfType("devtmpfs")) == 1 {