diff -Nur module-init-tools-3.6.old/modprobe.c module-init-tools-3.6.new/modprobe.c
--- module-init-tools-3.6.old/modprobe.c	2009-02-04 01:45:24.000000000 -0600
+++ module-init-tools-3.6.new/modprobe.c	2009-02-08 01:40:24.143637295 -0600
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
 #include <sys/wait.h>
 #include <syslog.h>
+#include <regex.h>
 
 #define streq(a,b) (strcmp((a),(b)) == 0)
 #define ARRAY_SIZE(x) (sizeof(x) / sizeof((x)[0]))
@@ -1275,6 +1276,20 @@
 	return 1;
 }
 
+/* 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);
+}
+
 /* Simple format, ignore lines starting with #, one command per line.
    Returns true or false. */
 static int read_config(const char *filename,
@@ -1294,7 +1309,10 @@
 	if (dir) {
 		struct dirent *i;
 		while ((i = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
+			/* Removed this line:
			if (!streq(i->d_name,".") && !streq(i->d_name,"..")
+			and replaced with this one: */
+			if (valid_file_name(i->d_name)
 			    && config_filter(i->d_name)) {
 				char sub[strlen(filename) + 1
 					 + strlen(i->d_name) + 1];