From 3cec3bcd162a410171ded45c11d44725678f0880 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cphlipot <9103367+cphlipot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:13:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] cuda: Don't crash when querying memory on device with no free
 memory. (#25157)

If a Cuda device has no or limited available memory, the actual call
to cudaMemGetInfo() itself can cause a fatal crash due to a cuda out
of memory error (there is not enough memory to actually query memory)

This causes an issue because we query memory for all devices at
startup even if the user isn't trying to use the device for inference.

Fix this by making the error non-fatal and assigning zero total/free
memory to the device. This will have the downstream effect of the fit
algorithm not trying to put any layers on it, which is desired outcome
vs hard crashing.

this also prevents crashes in cuda enabled builds when user explicitly
passes '-dev none'
---
 ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu
index 98816f885c..0878ab9c08 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu
@@ -4493,7 +4493,14 @@ static bool ggml_backend_cuda_get_available_uma_memory(long * available_memory_k
 static void ggml_backend_cuda_device_get_memory(ggml_backend_dev_t dev, size_t * free, size_t * total) {
     ggml_backend_cuda_device_context * ctx = (ggml_backend_cuda_device_context *)dev->context;
     ggml_cuda_set_device(ctx->device);
-    CUDA_CHECK(cudaMemGetInfo(free, total));
+    cudaError_t err = cudaMemGetInfo(free, total);
+    if (err != cudaSuccess) {
+        (void)cudaGetLastError();
+        GGML_LOG_WARN("%s: cudaMemGetInfo failed (%s), returning 0/0\n", __func__, cudaGetErrorString(err));
+        *free = 0;
+        *total = 0;
+        return;
+    }
 
 // ref: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/17368
 #if defined(__linux__)