diff --git a/libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go b/libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go
index 5073870de25..0aeadb92329 100644
--- a/libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go
+++ b/libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/cgroups"
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/configs"
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/system"
+	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/utils"
 	libcontainerUtils "github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/utils"
 	"github.com/opencontainers/selinux/go-selinux/label"
 
@@ -589,6 +590,12 @@ func createDevices(config *configs.Config) error {
 	useBindMount := system.RunningInUserNS() || config.Namespaces.Contains(configs.NEWUSER)
 	oldMask := unix.Umask(0000)
 	for _, node := range config.Devices {
+
+		// The /dev/ptmx device is setup by setupPtmx()
+		if utils.CleanPath(node.Path) == "/dev/ptmx" {
+			continue
+		}
+
 		// containers running in a user namespace are not allowed to mknod
 		// devices so we can just bind mount it from the host.
 		if err := createDeviceNode(config.Rootfs, node, useBindMount); err != nil {
diff --git a/tests/integration/dev.bats b/tests/integration/dev.bats
index 2ce97615ac2..ef09dcd128d 100644
--- a/tests/integration/dev.bats
+++ b/tests/integration/dev.bats
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ function teardown() {
 	teardown_busybox
 }
 
-@test "runc run [redundant default dev]" {
+@test "runc run [redundant default /dev/tty]" {
 	update_config ' .linux.devices += [{"path": "/dev/tty", "type": "c", "major": 5, "minor": 0}]
-		      | .process.args |= ["ls", "-l", "/dev/tty"]'
+		      | .process.args |= ["ls", "-lL", "/dev/tty"]'
 
 	runc run test_dev
 	[ "$status" -eq 0 ]
@@ -24,3 +24,12 @@ function teardown() {
 		[[ "${lines[0]}" =~ "crw-rw-rw".+"1".+"root".+"root".+"5,".+"0".+"/dev/tty" ]]
 	fi
 }
+
+@test "runc run [redundant default /dev/ptmx]" {
+	update_config ' .linux.devices += [{"path": "/dev/ptmx", "type": "c", "major": 5, "minor": 2}]
+		      | .process.args |= ["ls", "-lL", "/dev/ptmx"]'
+
+	runc run test_dev
+	[ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+	[[ "${lines[0]}" =~ "crw-rw-rw".+"1".+"root".+"root".+"5,".+"2".+"/dev/ptmx" ]]
+}