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

 shell pattern-specified alias names in module bodies work.

diff --git a/modutils/modprobe-small.c b/modutils/modprobe-small.c
index 3aa06d57e8e754e694a6e6bdfeeac2bd12812c4f..e82ee4cef4406dfdae06603680c5486e4ed4cc50 100644 (file)
--- 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);