prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_AUXV, addr, 1); will copy 1 byte from userspace to (quite big) on-stack array and then stash everything to mm->saved_auxv. AT_NULL terminator will be inserted at the very end.
/proc/*/auxv handler will find that AT_NULL terminator and copy original stack contents to userspace. This devious scheme requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobri...@gmail.com> --- apply to >=3.5 kernel/sys.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -2079,7 +2079,7 @@ static int prctl_set_auxv(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, * up to the caller to provide sane values here, otherwise userspace * tools which use this vector might be unhappy. */ - unsigned long user_auxv[AT_VECTOR_SIZE]; + unsigned long user_auxv[AT_VECTOR_SIZE] = {}; if (len > sizeof(user_auxv)) return -EINVAL;