modprobe-small: match aliases with fnmatch(), making

 shell pattern-specified alias names in module bodies work.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/modutils/modprobe-small.c b/modutils/modprobe-small.c
index 3aa06d5..e82ee4c 100644
--- a/modutils/modprobe-small.c
+++ b/modutils/modprobe-small.c
@@ -385,7 +385,11 @@ static module_info* find_alias(const char *alias)
 		/* Does matching substring exist? */
 		replace(desc, ' ', '\0');
 		for (s = desc; *s; s += strlen(s) + 1) {
-			if (strcmp(s, alias) == 0) {
+			/* aliases in module bodies can be defined with
+			 * shell patterns. Example:
+			 * "pci:v000010DEd000000D9sv*sd*bc*sc*i*".
+			 * Plain strcmp() won't catch that */
+			if (fnmatch(s, alias, 0) == 0) {
 				free(desc);
 				dbg1_error_msg("found alias '%s' in module '%s'",
 						alias, modinfo[i].pathname);