2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 07844e4..fb6028c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+- make sure to behave properly on errors in libmodprobe (#3309)
+
 Version 0.11.2 - 18 October 2011, Thierry Vignaud
 
 - adapt to new module-init-tools-3.16's API
diff --git a/modalias.c b/modalias.c
index 2d17135..a235c09 100644
--- a/modalias.c
+++ b/modalias.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ char *modalias_resolve_module(const char *modalias) {
 	/* Returns the resolved alias, options */
 	parse_toplevel_config(NULL, &conf, 0, 0);
 
-	errfn_t error;
+	errfn_t error = mod_warn;
         aliases = find_matching_aliases(modalias, "", &conf, dirname, error, mit_dry_run, &list);
 
 	/* only load blacklisted modules with specific request (no alias) */