diff --git a/libvirt-qemu_namespace-Don-t-leak-memory-in-qemuDomainGetPreservedMounts.patch b/libvirt-qemu_namespace-Don-t-leak-memory-in-qemuDomainGetPreservedMounts.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..10419d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libvirt-qemu_namespace-Don-t-leak-memory-in-qemuDomainGetPreservedMounts.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+From 77b0485ba92fe5f0520321385af8a7581c286df1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+Message-Id: <77b0485ba92fe5f0520321385af8a7581c286df1@dist-git>
+From: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
+Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:38:13 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] qemu_namespace: Don't leak memory in
+ qemuDomainGetPreservedMounts()
+MIME-Version: 1.0
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+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+The aim of qemuDomainGetPreservedMounts() is to get a list of
+filesystems mounted under /dev and optionally generate a path for
+each one where they are moved temporarily when building the
+namespace. And the function tries to be a bit clever about it.
+For instance, if /dev/shm mount point exists, there's no need to
+consider /dev/shm/a nor /dev/shm/b as preserving just 'top level'
+/dev/shm gives the same result. To achieve this, the function
+iterates over the list of filesystem as returned by
+virFileGetMountSubtree() and removes the nested ones. However, it
+does so in a bit clumsy way: plain VIR_DELETE_ELEMENT() is used
+without freeing the string itself. Therefore, if all three
+aforementioned example paths appeared on the list, /dev/shm/a and
+/dev/shm/b strings would be leaked.
+
+And when I think about it more, there's no real need to shrink
+the array down (realloc()). It's going to be free()-d when
+returning from the function. Switch to
+VIR_DELETE_ELEMENT_INPLACE() then.
+
+Fixes: cdd9205dfffa3aaed935446a41f0d2dd1357c268
+Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
+Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
+Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
+(cherry picked from commit bca7a53333ead7c1afd178728de74c2977cd4b5e)
+Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2166573
+Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
+---
+ src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c | 3 ++-
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c b/src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c
+index 74ffd6fb90..2f50087c1d 100644
+--- a/src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c
++++ b/src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c
+@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ qemuDomainGetPreservedMounts(virQEMUDriverConfig *cfg,
+ 
+             if (c && (*c == '/' || *c == '\0')) {
+                 VIR_DEBUG("Dropping path %s because of %s", mounts[j], mounts[i]);
+-                VIR_DELETE_ELEMENT(mounts, j, nmounts);
++                VIR_FREE(mounts[j]);
++                VIR_DELETE_ELEMENT_INPLACE(mounts, j, nmounts);
+             } else {
+                 j++;
+             }
+-- 
+2.39.1
+
diff --git a/libvirt.spec b/libvirt.spec
index e07ec64..8efdf22 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec
+++ b/libvirt.spec
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@
 Summary: Library providing a simple virtualization API
 Name: libvirt
 Version: 8.0.0
-Release: 15%{?dist}%{?extra_release}
+Release: 16%{?dist}%{?extra_release}
 License: LGPLv2+
 URL: https://libvirt.org/
 
@@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ Patch78: libvirt-nodedev-add-optional-device-address-of-channel-device-to-css-de
 Patch79: libvirt-nodedev-add-tests-for-optional-device-address-to-css-device.patch
 Patch80: libvirt-nodedev-prevent-internal-error-on-dev_busid-parse.patch
 Patch81: libvirt-rpc-Fix-memory-leak-of-fds.patch
+Patch82: libvirt-qemu_namespace-Don-t-leak-memory-in-qemuDomainGetPreservedMounts.patch
 
 Requires: libvirt-daemon = %{version}-%{release}
 Requires: libvirt-daemon-config-network = %{version}-%{release}
@@ -2180,6 +2181,9 @@ exit 0
 
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Feb  8 2023 Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com> - 8.0.0-16
+- qemu_namespace: Don't leak memory in qemuDomainGetPreservedMounts() (rhbz#2166573)
+
 * Tue Jan 31 2023 Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com> - 8.0.0-15
 - nodedev: fix reported error msg in css cap XML parsing (rhbz#2165011)
 - util: refactor virDomainDeviceCCWAddress into virccw.h (rhbz#2165011)