diff --git a/parser/profile-load b/parser/profile-load
index 2663c04d5..95b474ee3 100755
--- a/parser/profile-load
+++ b/parser/profile-load
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ aafs=/sys/kernel/security/apparmor
 
 params=$module/parameters
 [ -r $params/enabled ]       || exit 0 # do not load if missing
-read enabled < $params/enabled || exit 1 # if this fails, something went wrong
+read -r enabled < $params/enabled || exit 1 # if this fails, something went wrong
 [ "$enabled" = "Y" ]         || exit 0 # do not load if disabled
 
 /sbin/apparmor_parser -r -W "$profile" || exit 0 # LP: #1058356