diff -Nur module-init-tools-3.12.orig//modprobe.c module-init-tools-3.12/modprobe.c
--- module-init-tools-3.12.orig//modprobe.c	2010-05-04 00:19:27.000000000 -0500
+++ module-init-tools-3.12/modprobe.c	2010-06-08 04:32:46.655088739 -0500
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
 #include <sys/wait.h>
 #include <syslog.h>
+#include <regex.h>
 
 #include "util.h"
 #include "elfops.h"
@@ -789,6 +790,20 @@
 	return strsep(string, delim);
 }
 
+/* Let's exclude a few file extensions */
+static int valid_file_name(const char *filename)
+{
+	static regex_t *re = NULL;
+
+	if (!re) {
+		re = NOFAIL(malloc(sizeof(regex_t)));
+		if (regcomp(re, "(^(\\.|\\.\\.)|\\.(new|orig|bak)$)",
+			REG_EXTENDED|REG_NOSUB) != 0)
+				fatal("regcomp failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+		}
+		return regexec(re, filename, 0, NULL, 0);
+}
+
 static int parse_config_scan(const char *filename,
 			     struct modprobe_conf *conf,
 			     int dump_only,
@@ -1066,6 +1081,8 @@
 		while ((i = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
 			size_t len;
 
+			if (!valid_file_name(i->d_name))
+				continue;
 			if (i->d_name[0] == '.')
 				continue;
 			if (!config_filter(i->d_name))