diff --git a/container/container_unix.go b/container/container_unix.go
index 22c7544179..d784a4f137 100644
--- a/container/container_unix.go
+++ b/container/container_unix.go
@@ -559,18 +559,6 @@ func (container *Container) UnmountIpcMounts(unmount func(pth string) error) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if !container.HasMountFor("/dev/mqueue") {
-		mqueuePath, err := container.MqueueResourcePath()
-		if err != nil {
-			logrus.Error(err)
-			warnings = append(warnings, err.Error())
-		} else if mqueuePath != "" {
-			if err := unmount(mqueuePath); err != nil {
-				warnings = append(warnings, fmt.Sprintf("failed to umount %s: %v", mqueuePath, err))
-			}
-		}
-	}
-
 	if len(warnings) > 0 {
 		logrus.Warnf("failed to cleanup ipc mounts:\n%v", strings.Join(warnings, "\n"))
 	}
@@ -589,9 +577,8 @@ func (container *Container) IpcMounts() []execdriver.Mount {
 			Propagation: volume.DefaultPropagationMode,
 		})
 	}
-
-	if !container.HasMountFor("/dev/mqueue") {
-		label.SetFileLabel(container.MqueuePath, container.MountLabel)
+	if !container.HasMountFor("/dev/mqueue") &&
+		container.MqueuePath != "" {
 		mounts = append(mounts, execdriver.Mount{
 			Source:      container.MqueuePath,
 			Destination: "/dev/mqueue",
diff --git a/daemon/container_operations_unix.go b/daemon/container_operations_unix.go
index 1a54566dad..27fdd30a84 100644
--- a/daemon/container_operations_unix.go
+++ b/daemon/container_operations_unix.go
@@ -93,11 +93,6 @@ func (daemon *Daemon) populateCommand(c *container.Container, env []string) erro
 		return err
 	}
 
-	c.MqueuePath, err = c.MqueueResourcePath()
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
 	if c.HostConfig.IpcMode.IsContainer() {
 		ic, err := daemon.getIpcContainer(c)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -105,7 +100,6 @@ func (daemon *Daemon) populateCommand(c *container.Container, env []string) erro
 		}
 		ipc.ContainerID = ic.ID
 		c.ShmPath = ic.ShmPath
-		c.MqueuePath = ic.MqueuePath
 	} else {
 		ipc.HostIpc = c.HostConfig.IpcMode.IsHost()
 		if ipc.HostIpc {
@@ -1062,21 +1056,6 @@ func (daemon *Daemon) setupIpcDirs(c *container.Container) error {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if !c.HasMountFor("/dev/mqueue") {
-		mqueuePath, err := c.MqueueResourcePath()
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-
-		if err := idtools.MkdirAllAs(mqueuePath, 0700, rootUID, rootGID); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-
-		if err := syscall.Mount("mqueue", mqueuePath, "mqueue", uintptr(syscall.MS_NOEXEC|syscall.MS_NOSUID|syscall.MS_NODEV), ""); err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("mounting mqueue mqueue : %s", err)
-		}
-	}
-
 	return nil
 }
 
diff --git a/daemon/execdriver/native/template/default_template_linux.go b/daemon/execdriver/native/template/default_template_linux.go
index 7e7fe28fac..073bcac9a3 100644
--- a/daemon/execdriver/native/template/default_template_linux.go
+++ b/daemon/execdriver/native/template/default_template_linux.go
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ func New() *configs.Config {
 				Flags:       syscall.MS_NOSUID | syscall.MS_NOEXEC,
 				Data:        "newinstance,ptmxmode=0666,mode=0620,gid=5",
 			},
+			{
+				Source:      "mqueue",
+				Destination: "/dev/mqueue",
+				Device:      "mqueue",
+				Flags:       defaultMountFlags,
+			},
 			{
 				Source:      "sysfs",
 				Destination: "/sys",