diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8cbe1fe6878..50fcd4e9222 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -113,8 +113,6 @@ The following build tags were used earlier, but are now obsoleted:
  - **apparmor** (since runc v1.0.0-rc93 the feature is always enabled)
  - **selinux**  (since runc v1.0.0-rc93 the feature is always enabled)
 
- [contrib-memfd-bind]: /contrib/cmd/memfd-bind/README.md
-
 ### Running the test suite
 
 `runc` currently supports running its test suite via Docker.
diff --git a/contrib/cmd/memfd-bind/README.md b/contrib/cmd/memfd-bind/README.md
index a83cc78208c..93229250259 100644
--- a/contrib/cmd/memfd-bind/README.md
+++ b/contrib/cmd/memfd-bind/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 ## memfd-bind ##
 
-`runc` normally has to make a binary copy of itself when constructing a
+> **NOTE**: Since runc 1.2.0, runc will now use a private overlayfs mount to
+> protect the runc binary (if you are on Linux 5.1 or later). This protection
+> is far more light-weight than memfd-bind, and for most users this should
+> obviate the need for `memfd-bind` entirely. Rootless containers will still
+> make a memfd copy (unless you are using `runc` itself inside a user namespace
+> -- a-la [`rootlesskit`][rootlesskit] -- and are on Linux 5.11 or later), but
+> `memfd-bind` is not particularly useful for rootless container users anyway
+> (see [Caveats](#Caveats) for more details).
+
+`runc` sometimes has to make a binary copy of itself when constructing a
 container process in order to defend against certain container runtime attacks
 such as CVE-2019-5736.
 
@@ -38,6 +47,8 @@ much memory usage they can use:
   container process setup takes up about 10MB per process spawned inside the
   container by runc (both pid1 and `runc exec`).
 
+[rootlesskit]: https://github.com/rootless-containers/rootlesskit
+
 ### Caveats ###
 
 There are several downsides with using `memfd-bind` on the `runc` binary:
diff --git a/libcontainer/dmz/overlayfs_linux.go b/libcontainer/dmz/overlayfs_linux.go
index 92cb1944e59..b81b7025895 100644
--- a/libcontainer/dmz/overlayfs_linux.go
+++ b/libcontainer/dmz/overlayfs_linux.go
@@ -84,6 +84,13 @@ func sealedOverlayfs(binPath, tmpDir string) (_ *os.File, Err error) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("fsconfig set overlayfs lowerdir=%s: %w", lowerDirStr, err)
 	}
 
+	// We don't care about xino (Linux 4.17) but it will be auto-enabled on
+	// some systems (if /run/runc and /usr/bin are on different filesystems)
+	// and this produces spurious dmesg log entries. We can safely ignore
+	// errors when disabling this because we don't actually care about the
+	// setting and we're just opportunistically disabling it.
+	_ = unix.FsconfigSetString(int(overlayCtx.Fd()), "xino", "off")
+
 	// Get an actual handle to the overlayfs.
 	if err := unix.FsconfigCreate(int(overlayCtx.Fd())); err != nil {
 		return nil, os.NewSyscallError("fsconfig create overlayfs", err)