diff --git a/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/0005-dont-return-error-if-unable-to-create-network-namespace.patch b/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/0005-dont-return-error-if-unable-to-create-network-namespace.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d83bf72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/0005-dont-return-error-if-unable-to-create-network-namespace.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+From 870b79559cd5841b3f680c914b4b2e770a9961cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ratan Gupta <ratagupt@in.ibm.com>
+Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 11:59:14 +0530
+Subject: [PATCH] Don't return the error if unable to create the network
+ namespace
+
+On systems where kernel is not configured with namespace support
+then don't return error during setting up network namespace.
+
+Signed-off-by: Ratan Gupta <ratagupt@in.ibm.com>
+---
+ src/core/namespace.c | 4 ++--
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/core/namespace.c b/src/core/namespace.c
+index 1195e9a..f30dacf 100644
+--- a/src/core/namespace.c
++++ b/src/core/namespace.c
+@@ -986,7 +986,7 @@ int setup_netns(int netns_storage_socket[2]) {
+                 /* Nothing stored yet, so let's create a new namespace */
+ 
+                 if (unshare(CLONE_NEWNET) < 0) {
+-                        r = -errno;
++                        r = 0;
+                         goto fail;
+                 }
+ 
+@@ -994,7 +994,7 @@ int setup_netns(int netns_storage_socket[2]) {
+ 
+                 netns = open("/proc/self/ns/net", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC|O_NOCTTY);
+                 if (netns < 0) {
+-                        r = -errno;
++                        r = 0;
+                         goto fail;
+                 }
+ 
+-- 
+1.9.1
+
diff --git a/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend b/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
index ab95deb..627cd0c 100644
--- a/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
+++ b/common/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
 SRC_URI += "file://0002-systemd-Make-pam-compile-shared-library.patch"
 SRC_URI += "file://0003-basic-Factor-out-string-checking-from-name_to_prefix.patch"
 SRC_URI += "file://0004-basic-Use-path-escaping-when-mangling-path-instances.patch"
+#TODO upstream the below patch via below issue
+#https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/2016
+SRC_URI += "file://0005-dont-return-error-if-unable-to-create-network-namespace.patch"
 
 RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "obmc-targets"
 FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/systemd/network/default.network"