Fix/windows skippy package large gguf - #1307
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change moves model-package command execution to an 8 MiB worker thread and adds contextual error handling. The llama.cpp patch adds GGUF package operations and validates platform-specific 64-bit seeking during tensor copying. ChangesRuntime command execution
GGUF package support
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The package writer now supports large GGUF files, but malformed layer names may still terminate packaging or select invalid layers, and unchecked offset handling may still read tensor data from the wrong location. These bounded correctness risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Possibly related PRs
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- Around line 980-992: Update the offset calculation before the seek in the
tensor-writing path to validate the source data offset and tensor offset without
wrapping, reject sums exceeding uint64_t, and reject values that cannot be
represented by the selected platform seek API’s signed type. Perform these
checks before calling _fseeki64, fseeko, or std::fseek, accounting for
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| + const uint64_t source_data_offset = gguf_get_data_offset(item.source->ctx); | ||
| + const uint64_t absolute_offset = source_data_offset + item.tensor->offset; | ||
| + // std::fseek takes a long, which is 32-bit on Win32 MSVC. GGUF files | ||
| + // over 4 GB need a 64-bit seek or tensor offsets wrap. | ||
| + bool seek_ok; | ||
| +#if defined(_MSC_VER) | ||
| + seek_ok = _fseeki64(input, static_cast<__int64>(absolute_offset), SEEK_SET) == 0; | ||
| +#elif defined(_FILE_OFFSET_BITS) && _FILE_OFFSET_BITS == 64 | ||
| + seek_ok = fseeko(input, static_cast<off_t>(absolute_offset), SEEK_SET) == 0; | ||
| +#else | ||
| + seek_ok = std::fseek(input, static_cast<long>(absolute_offset), SEEK_SET) == 0; | ||
| +#endif | ||
| + if (!seek_ok) { |
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rg -n -C 3 'gguf_get_data_offset|struct gguf_context|tensor->offset|absolute_offset' third_party/llama.cpp \
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patch = Path("third_party/llama.cpp/patches/0001-Add-Skippy-ABI-and-package-writer-foundation.patch").read_text()
commit = Path("third_party/llama.cpp/upstream.txt").read_text().strip()
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assert "source_data_offset + item.tensor->offset" in patch
assert "static_cast<__int64>(absolute_offset)" in patch
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u64_max = (1 << 64) - 1
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tensor = 8
wrapped = (source + tensor) & u64_max
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assert (1 << 63) > (1 << 31)
print("The unchecked uint64_t addition wraps modulo 2^64 for source_data_offset=UINT64_MAX-7 and tensor offset=8.")
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Reject overflowing or unrepresentable tensor offsets before seeking.
The uint64_t sum can wrap, and the seek APIs accept narrower signed types. gguf_get_data_offset and tensor offsets are size_t, so 32-bit builds can truncate the data offset before the cast. Reject addition overflow and values above the selected seek type's maximum.
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In
`@third_party/llama.cpp/patches/0001-Add-Skippy-ABI-and-package-writer-foundation.patch`
around lines 980 - 992, Update the offset calculation before the seek in the
tensor-writing path to validate the source data offset and tensor offset without
wrapping, reject sums exceeding uint64_t, and reject values that cannot be
represented by the selected platform seek API’s signed type. Perform these
checks before calling _fseeki64, fseeko, or std::fseek, accounting for
size_t-to-uint64_t conversion limits on 32-bit builds, and preserve the existing
failure handling through seek_ok.
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third_party/llama.cpp/patches/0005-Add-Skippy-model-lifecycle-and-package-support.patch (1)
1518-1526: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPrevent exceptions and narrowing errors for malformed tensor layer names.
Matching oversized suffixes can make
std::stolthrowstd::out_of_range, and values aboveINT32_MAXcan narrow to an invalid layer index. No handler protectsskippy_model_info_open. Use a non-throwing, range-checked conversion toint32_tand return-1when parsing fails or the value is out of range.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 1518-1526: Update the tensor layer parsing logic around
blk_pattern and cache_pattern to use non-throwing, range-checked conversion to
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- crates/skippy-model-package/src/main.rs
Windows main threads get a 1 MB stack (PE default). On a 5 GB
Qwen3-8B-Q4_K_M.gguf, sha256 hashing the source model plus FFI
slice writing overflows the stack before any output is produced:
thread 'main' (15404) has overflowed its stack
The sibling mesh-llm binary already runs its workers at 8 MB
(crates/mesh-llm/src/main.rs:14) for the same reason, but that
rationale never propagated to skippy-model-package, which runs
the heavy work directly on the main thread.
Move the body into a spawned thread with an 8 MB stack and
resume_unwind any panic so the original payload propagates to
the main thread instead of a generic join error.
Rebased onto the reorganized llama.cpp patch queue: the 64-bit seek fix now lives in 0005-Add-Skippy-model-lifecycle-and-package-support.patch (src/skippy/model_package.cpp), where skippy_copy_source_tensors moved, instead of the retired 0001-Add-Skippy-ABI-and-package-writer-foundation.patch. Also hardens the offset per CodeRabbit review: computes the absolute offset without unsigned wraparound and rejects values that exceed the selected platform seek API's signed range before seeking, so an out-of-range offset fails loudly instead of wrapping into a wrong read position. Co-authored-by: Michael Neale <michael.neale@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Neale <michael.neale@gmail.com>
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Title
fix(windows): skippy-model-package crashes on GGUF files larger than 4 GB
Original problem
On Windows, skippy-model-package fails on any GGUF larger than 4 GB. Two independent root causes, both triggered by
the same workload:
cost of sha256-hashing the source plus FFI slice writing overflows the stack before any output is produced:
thread 'main' (15404) has overflowed its stack
reason, but that fix never propagated to skippy-model-package, which runs all the heavy work directly on the main
thread.
SEEK_SET). On Win32 MSVC, long is 32-bit even on 64-bit Windows, so tensor offsets past 4 GB wrap and reads land at
the wrong file position. Result: an opaque failed to copy selected GGUF tensor data partway through write-package,
always at the first tensor past 4 GB.
Diagnostics
Reproduced on Windows (MSVC build) with Qwen/Qwen3-8B:Q4_K_M (~5.0 GB gguf):
layer-011 (the first one whose source tensor offset crosses 4 GB):
failed to copy selected GGUF tensor data
Confirmed the 4 GB boundary by checking the failing tensor's absolute_offset in a debugger — it was just above
0x1_0000_0000, and the wrapped 32-bit value matched the byte the reader actually landed on.
Fix
Two minimal changes, one per root cause:
mesh-llm runtime default. Panics are re-raised with resume_unwind so the original payload reaches the main thread
instead of a generic JoinError.
- _fseeki64 on MSVC
- fseeko when _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 on POSIX
- std::fseek fallback otherwise (unchanged)
The GGUF header KV-skip helper is left alone — single KV values do not approach 4 GB in practice.
After both fixes, the same repro completes all 36 layers of Qwen3-8B:Q4_K_M.
Compatibility / migration: none. Both changes are platform-specific internal fixes — no CLI, protocol, or on-disk
format change. Existing packages are byte-identical; only Windows builds larger than 4 GB start succeeding.
Validation
Windows-only at runtime; POSIX builds exercise the unchanged fallback.
previously failed at layer-011.
untouched.
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