diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index c81bad47d..287bb7c64 100755
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -198,6 +198,22 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
 
 	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
 
+menuconfig UNAME_OVERRIDE
+	bool "Override uname output for specific processes"
+	help
+	  This will modify struct new_utsname->release string's return value
+	  to another string on a specified process.
+
+if UNAME_OVERRIDE
+
+config UNAME_OVERRIDE_TARGET
+	string "Target process' cmdline for uname override"
+
+config UNAME_OVERRIDE_STRING
+	string "New uname's release string for uname override"
+
+endif
+
 config BUILD_SALT
 	string "Build ID Salt"
 	default ""
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 0a23d1edd..62accdfc9 100755
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/mempolicy.h>
+#include <linux/string_helpers.h>
 
 #include <linux/compat.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
@@ -1239,6 +1240,24 @@ DECLARE_RWSEM(uts_sem);
 #define override_architecture(name)	0
 #endif
 
+static void override_custom_release(char __user *release, size_t len)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_UNAME_OVERRIDE
+	char *buf;
+
+	buf = kstrdup_quotable_cmdline(current, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (buf == NULL)
+		return;
+
+	if (strstr(buf, CONFIG_UNAME_OVERRIDE_TARGET)) {
+		copy_to_user(release, CONFIG_UNAME_OVERRIDE_STRING,
+			       strlen(CONFIG_UNAME_OVERRIDE_STRING) + 1);
+	}
+
+	kfree(buf);
+#endif
+}
+
 /*
  * Work around broken programs that cannot handle "Linux 3.0".
  * Instead we map 3.x to 2.6.40+x, so e.g. 3.0 would be 2.6.40
@@ -1303,6 +1322,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(newuname, struct new_utsname __user *, name)
 	if (copy_to_user(name, &tmp, sizeof(tmp)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
+	override_custom_release(name->release, sizeof(name->release));
 	if (override_release(name->release, sizeof(name->release)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 	if (override_architecture(name))