diff -Naur a/toys/pending/modprobe.c b/toys/pending/modprobe.c
--- a/toys/pending/modprobe.c	2014-10-02 18:23:27.000000000 +0530
+++ b/toys/pending/modprobe.c	2014-10-06 17:45:07.000000000 +0530
@@ -178,15 +178,21 @@
     line = NULL;
     linelen = nxtlinelen = 0;
     len = getline(&line, (size_t*)&linelen, fl);
-    if (len <= 0) return len;
+    if (len <= 0) {
+      free(line);
+      return len;
+    }
     // checking for commented lines.
     if (line[0] != '#') break;
     free(line);
   }
   for (;;) {
     if (line[len - 1] == '\n') len--;
-    // checking line continuation.
-    if (!len || line[len - 1] != '\\') break;
+    if (!len) { 
+      free(line);
+      return len;
+    } else if (line[len - 1] != '\\') break;
+    
     len--;
     nxtlen = getline(&nxtline, (size_t*)&nxtlinelen, fl);
     if (nxtlen <= 0) break;