diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/lora/lora.py b/python/sglang/srt/lora/lora.py
index f1199304a269..995aca6e5e36 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/lora/lora.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/lora/lora.py
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@
 # https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/4abf6336ec65c270343eb895e7b18786e9274176/vllm/lora/layers.py
 
 import logging
-import re
 from typing import Dict, List
 
 import torch
 from torch import nn
 
 from sglang.srt.configs.load_config import LoadConfig
+from sglang.srt.layers.utils import get_layer_id
 from sglang.srt.lora.backend.base_backend import BaseLoRABackend
 from sglang.srt.lora.backend.lora_registry import LORA_SUPPORTED_BACKENDS
 from sglang.srt.lora.lora_config import LoRAConfig
@@ -71,8 +71,6 @@ def __init__(
             ]
         )
 
-        self.weights: Dict[str, torch.Tensor] = {}
-
     # initialize the LoRA weights to cpu
     def initialize_weights(self):
         model_path = self.config.path
@@ -83,12 +81,9 @@ def initialize_weights(self):
                 model_path, revision=revision, fall_back_to_pt=True
             )
         ):
-            match = re.search(r"layers\.(\d+)\.", name)
-            if match is not None:
-                layer_id = int(match.group(1))
+            layer_id = get_layer_id(name)
+            if layer_id is not None:
                 self.layers[layer_id].weights[name] = loaded_weight.cpu()
-            else:
-                self.weights[name] = loaded_weight.cpu()
 
         # normalize kv_proj and gate_up_proj
         for layer in self.layers:
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/lora/lora_manager.py b/python/sglang/srt/lora/lora_manager.py
index 5d0d68d51fcc..1e1a1400de13 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/lora/lora_manager.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/lora/lora_manager.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 import torch
 
 from sglang.srt.configs.load_config import LoadConfig
+from sglang.srt.layers.utils import get_layer_id
 from sglang.srt.lora.backend.base_backend import BaseLoRABackend
 from sglang.srt.lora.backend.lora_registry import get_backend_from_name
 from sglang.srt.lora.layers import BaseLayerWithLoRA, get_lora_layer
@@ -30,7 +31,6 @@
 from sglang.srt.lora.mem_pool import LoRAMemoryPool
 from sglang.srt.lora.utils import (
     LoRAType,
-    get_layer_id,
     get_normalized_target_modules,
     get_target_module_name,
 )
diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/lora/utils.py b/python/sglang/srt/lora/utils.py
index b0ed5bfc4a99..48a450d9b468 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/lora/utils.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/lora/utils.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import re
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from enum import Enum
 from typing import Iterable, Optional, Set, Tuple
@@ -46,16 +45,6 @@ class LoRAType(Enum):
     LORA_B = 1
 
 
-def get_layer_id(name: str) -> int:
-    """
-    Extract integer id of layer from its name in string.
-    """
-    match = re.search(r"layers\.(\d+)\.", name)
-    if match is None:
-        return None
-    return int(match.group(1))
-
-
 def get_hidden_dim(
     module_name: str, config: AutoConfig, base_model: torch.nn.Module, layer_idx: int
 ) -> Tuple[int]: