1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/modutils/modprobe-small.c b/modutils/modprobe-small.c
index 3aa06d57e..e82ee4cef 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);