[PATCH] drm/amd: Taint the kernel when enabling overdrive

Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello at amd.com
Wed Sep 25 20:05:07 UTC 2024


Some distributions have been patching amdgpu to enable overdrive by
default which may compromise stability.  Furthermore when bug reports
are brought upstream it's not obvious that the system has been tampered
with.

When overdrive is enabled taint the kernel and leave a critical message
in the logs for users so that it's obvious in a bug report it's been
tampered with.

Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello at amd.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c
index f57411ed2dc2..99717a1d7f61 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c
@@ -3067,6 +3067,11 @@ static int __init amdgpu_init(void)
 	/* Ignore KFD init failures. Normal when CONFIG_HSA_AMD is not set. */
 	amdgpu_amdkfd_init();
 
+	if (amdgpu_pp_feature_mask & PP_OVERDRIVE_MASK) {
+		add_taint(TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
+		pr_crit("Overdrive is enabled, please disable it before reporting any bugs.\n");
+	}
+
 	/* let modprobe override vga console setting */
 	return pci_register_driver(&amdgpu_kms_pci_driver);
 
-- 
2.43.0



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