diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/tau/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/tau/package.py
index 3e6eb0b6435..abc08b8592f 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/tau/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/tau/package.py
@@ -178,6 +178,9 @@ class Tau(Package):
         msg="Using ROCm, select either +rocprofiler, +roctracer or +rocprofv2",
     )
 
+    # https://github.com/UO-OACISS/tau2/commit/1d2cb6b
+    patch("tau-rocm-disable-llvm-plugin.patch", when="@2.33.2 +rocm")
+
     filter_compiler_wrappers("Makefile", relative_root="include")
     filter_compiler_wrappers("Makefile.tau*", relative_root="lib")
     filter_compiler_wrappers("Makefile.tau*", relative_root="lib64")
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/tau/tau-rocm-disable-llvm-plugin.patch b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/tau/tau-rocm-disable-llvm-plugin.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0f863c6a9a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/tau/tau-rocm-disable-llvm-plugin.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+diff -ruN spack-src/configure spack-src-patched/configure
+--- spack-src/configure	2024-04-16 00:20:41.000000000 +0000
++++ spack-src-patched/configure	2024-06-12 19:35:50.799407280 +0000
+@@ -3101,7 +3101,6 @@
+             rocprofiler=yes
+             tauoptions="${tauoptions}-rocm"
+             pthread=yes
+-            build_llvm_plugin=yes
+             shift
+             ;;
+ 
+@@ -3118,7 +3117,6 @@
+             rocprofiler=yes
+             tauoptions="${tauoptions}-rocm"
+             pthread=yes
+-            build_llvm_plugin=yes
+             shift
+             ;;
+