diff --git a/miscutils/ubirename.c b/miscutils/ubirename.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..455a49485
--- /dev/null
+++ b/miscutils/ubirename.c
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+/* ubirename - port of the ubirename from the mtd-utils package
+ *
+ * A utility to rename one UBI volume.
+ *
+ * 2016-03-01 Sven Eisenberg <sven.eisenberg@novero.com>
+ *
+ * Licensed under GPLv2, see file LICENSE in this source tree.
+ */
+//config:config UBIRENAME
+//config:	bool "ubirename"
+//config:	default y
+//config:	select PLATFORM_LINUX
+//config:	help
+//config:	  Utility to rename UBI volumes
+
+//applet:IF_UBIRENAME(APPLET(ubirename, BB_DIR_USR_SBIN, BB_SUID_DROP))
+
+//kbuild:lib-$(CONFIG_UBIRENAME) += ubirename.o
+
+//usage:#define ubirename_trivial_usage
+//usage:	"UBI_DEVICE OLD_VOLNAME NEW_VOLNAME [OLD2 NEW2]..."
+//usage:#define ubirename_full_usage "\n\n"
+//usage:	"Rename UBI volumes on UBI_DEVICE"
+
+#include "libbb.h"
+#include <mtd/mtd-user.h>
+
+#ifndef __packed
+# define __packed __attribute__((packed))
+#endif
+
+// from ubi-media.h
+#define UBI_VOL_NAME_MAX 127
+#define UBI_MAX_VOLUMES  128
+// end ubi-media.h
+
+#define UBI_MAX_VOLUME_NAME  UBI_VOL_NAME_MAX
+
+// from ubi-user.h
+/* ioctl commands of UBI character devices */
+#define UBI_IOC_MAGIC 'o'
+
+/* Re-name volumes */
+#define UBI_IOCRNVOL _IOW(UBI_IOC_MAGIC, 3, struct ubi_rnvol_req)
+
+/* Maximum amount of UBI volumes that can be re-named at one go */
+#define UBI_MAX_RNVOL 32
+
+struct ubi_rnvol_req {
+	int32_t count;
+	int8_t  padding1[12];
+	struct {
+		int32_t vol_id;
+		int16_t name_len;
+		int8_t  padding2[2];
+		char    name[UBI_MAX_VOLUME_NAME + 1];
+	} ents[UBI_MAX_RNVOL];
+} __packed;
+// end ubi-user.h
+
+int ubirename_main(int argc, char **argv) MAIN_EXTERNALLY_VISIBLE;
+int ubirename_main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+	struct ubi_rnvol_req *rnvol;
+	const char *ubi_devname;
+	unsigned ubi_devnum;
+	unsigned i, n;
+
+	/* argc can be 4, 6, 8, ... */
+	if ((argc & 1) || (argc >>= 1) < 2)
+		bb_show_usage();
+
+	rnvol = xzalloc(sizeof(*rnvol));
+	rnvol->count = --argc;
+	if (argc > ARRAY_SIZE(rnvol->ents))
+		bb_error_msg_and_die("too many renames requested");
+
+	ubi_devname = argv[1];
+	if (sscanf(ubi_devname, "/dev/ubi%u", &ubi_devnum) != 1)
+		bb_error_msg_and_die("not a ubi device: '%s'", ubi_devname);
+
+	n = 0;
+	argv += 2;
+	while (argv[0]) {
+		for (i = 0; i < UBI_MAX_VOLUMES; i++) {
+			char buf[UBI_VOL_NAME_MAX + 1];
+			char fname[sizeof("/sys/class/ubi/ubi%u_%u/name") + 2 * sizeof(int)*3];
+
+			sprintf(fname, "/sys/class/ubi/ubi%u_%u/name", ubi_devnum, i);
+			if (open_read_close(fname, buf, sizeof(buf)) <= 0)
+				continue;
+
+			strchrnul(buf, '\n')[0] = '\0';
+			if (strcmp(buf, argv[0]) == 0)
+				goto found;
+		}
+		bb_error_msg_and_die("no volume '%s' found", argv[0]);
+ found:
+		rnvol->ents[n].vol_id = i;
+		rnvol->ents[n].name_len = strlen(argv[1]);
+		if (rnvol->ents[n].name_len >= sizeof(rnvol->ents[n].name))
+			bb_error_msg_and_die("new name '%s' is too long", argv[1]);
+		strcpy(rnvol->ents[n].name, argv[1]);
+		n++;
+		argv += 2;
+	}
+
+	xioctl(xopen(ubi_devname, O_RDONLY), UBI_IOCRNVOL, rnvol);
+
+	return 0;
+}