diff --git a/csrc/cache_kernels.cu b/csrc/cache_kernels.cu
index 6bea5abc3dfb..486b39f23ff7 100644
--- a/csrc/cache_kernels.cu
+++ b/csrc/cache_kernels.cu
@@ -599,6 +599,11 @@ __global__ void cp_gather_indexer_k_quant_cache_kernel(
   const int head_idx = (blockIdx.y * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x) * VEC_SIZE;
   // Find batch index within a block
   __shared__ int batch_idx[BLOCK_Y_SIZE];
+  if (threadIdx.x == 0) {
+    batch_idx[threadIdx.y] = -1;
+  }
+  __syncthreads();
+
   for (int iter = 0; iter < cuda_utils::ceil_div(batch_size, int(blockDim.x));
        iter++) {
     int tid = iter * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
@@ -611,16 +616,18 @@ __global__ void cp_gather_indexer_k_quant_cache_kernel(
     }
   }
 
-#ifndef USE_ROCM
-  __syncwarp();
-#endif
+  __syncthreads();
 
-  if (head_idx >= head_dim || token_idx >= num_tokens) {
+  // num_tokens may be an allocation upper bound when Python avoids a D2H sync.
+  // Only tokens covered by the exact device-side cu_seq_lens are valid to
+  // gather.
+  const int batch = batch_idx[threadIdx.y];
+  if (head_idx >= head_dim || token_idx >= num_tokens || batch < 0) {
     return;
   }
-  const int inbatch_seq_idx = token_idx - cu_seq_lens[batch_idx[threadIdx.y]];
-  const int block_idx = block_table[batch_idx[threadIdx.y] * num_blocks +
-                                    inbatch_seq_idx / cache_block_size];
+  const int inbatch_seq_idx = token_idx - cu_seq_lens[batch];
+  const int block_idx =
+      block_table[batch * num_blocks + inbatch_seq_idx / cache_block_size];
   const int64_t src_block_offset = block_idx * block_stride;
   const int64_t cache_inblock_offset =
       (inbatch_seq_idx % cache_block_size) * head_dim + head_idx;