diff --git a/docker/openstack-base/0001-Fix-unintended-assignment-of-syslog.patch b/docker/openstack-base/0001-Fix-unintended-assignment-of-syslog.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..de8be1a159
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/openstack-base/0001-Fix-unintended-assignment-of-syslog.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From ff277ae1e9b53b1844ecc220383ab9d39f954881 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Masaki Matsushita <glass.saga@gmail.com>
+Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:29:38 +0900
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix unintended assignment of "syslog"
+
+Identifier "syslog" is unintendedly reassigned in _setup_logging_from_conf()
+with OSSysLogHandler.
+It causes an error in _find_facility() which expects "syslog" as module.
+This change fixes the problem.
+
+Change-Id: Icd8486bc008028f6f78f0306d835bf2c4fb9245b
+Closes-Bug: #1499620
+---
+ oslo_log/log.py | 4 ++--
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/oslo_log/log.py b/oslo_log/log.py
+index 7ec89be..9f3949f 100644
+--- a/oslo_log/log.py
++++ b/oslo_log/log.py
+@@ -343,10 +343,10 @@ def _setup_logging_from_conf(conf, project, version):
+         facility = _find_facility(conf.syslog_log_facility)
+         # TODO(bogdando) use the format provided by RFCSysLogHandler after
+         # existing syslog format deprecation in J
+-        syslog = handlers.OSSysLogHandler(
++        syslog_handler = handlers.OSSysLogHandler(
+             facility=facility,
+             use_syslog_rfc_format=conf.use_syslog_rfc_format)
+-        log_root.addHandler(syslog)
++        log_root.addHandler(syslog_handler)
+ 
+     datefmt = conf.log_date_format
+     for handler in log_root.handlers:
+-- 
+2.1.0
+
diff --git a/docker/openstack-base/Dockerfile.j2 b/docker/openstack-base/Dockerfile.j2
index 893014088a..36c1c1c347 100644
--- a/docker/openstack-base/Dockerfile.j2
+++ b/docker/openstack-base/Dockerfile.j2
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 FROM {{ namespace }}/{{ image_prefix }}base:{{ tag }}
 MAINTAINER Kolla Project (https://launchpad.net/kolla)
 
+{% if base_distro in ['fedora', 'centos', 'oraclelinux', 'rhel'] %}
+
+RUN yum -y install patch \
+    && yum clean all
+
+{% endif %}
+
 {% if install_type == 'source' %}
     {% if base_distro in ['ubuntu', 'debian'] %}
 
@@ -14,6 +21,7 @@ RUN apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
         libxslt1-dev \
         libffi-dev \
         libyaml-dev \
+        patch \
         pkg-config \
         git \
     && apt-get clean
@@ -43,3 +51,10 @@ RUN curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py \
         MySQL-python
 
 {% endif %}
+
+# TODO(sdake):  Remove a backport of a patch which is not yet in the packaging
+#               to make oslo.log work properly once the patch is in oslo.log
+#               NB: Please remove patch from the list of packages for both
+#                   RPM and APT.
+COPY 0001-Fix-unintended-assignment-of-syslog.patch /
+RUN patch -p1 -d /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages < /0001-Fix-unintended-assignment-of-syslog.patch