Library Interposer

Recently I have used Dtrace to change the output of uname() syscall. But if one wants a more permanent and selective approach it is easier to write a small library which would interpose the uname() syscall (well, actually uname() libC function and not a syscall itself). I slightly modified the malloc_interposer example.

After you compiled the library all you have to do is to LD_PRELOAD it in your script so everything started by that script will use it or you can LD_PRELOAD it only for a given binary as shown below. Additionally you have to set a variable uname_release to whatever string you like otherwise the library won't do anything.

# uname -a
SunOS test-server 5.10 Generic_125100-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440
#
# uname_release="5.7" LD_PRELOAD=./uname_interposer.so uname -a
SunOS test-server 5.7 Generic_125100-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440



# cat uname_interposer.c
/* Based on http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/lib_interposers_code.html#malloc_interposer.c
*/
/* Example of a library interposer: interpose on
* uname().
* Build and use this interposer as following:
* cc -o malloc_interposer.so -G -Kpic malloc_interposer.c
* setenv LD_PRELOAD $cwd/uname_interposer.so
* run the app
* unsetenv LD_PRELOAD
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <dlfcn.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#include <sys/utsname.h>

int uname(struct utsname *name)
{
int rc;
char *release;

static int (*uname_func)(struct utsname *) = NULL;
if(!uname_func)
  uname_func = (int (*)(struct utsname*)) dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "uname");
rc = uname_func(name);
if (release=getenv("uname_release"))
  strlcpy(name->release, release, _SYS_NMLN);

return(rc);
}
#

# gcc -fPIC -g -o uname_interposer.so -G uname_interposer.c