[lililcode9527]

When an external KV connector (PD disagg / LMCache / NIXL) advances num_computed_tokens past local-computed, _get_prompt_logprobs_dict ships an unfilled LogprobsTensors.empty_cpu tensor; the stale int32 then overflows u32 in tokenizer.decode -> OverflowError, crashing the engine.

Only ship the logprobs tensor when there is something to fill (num_logits > 0).

Closes #50792

Purpose

In a PD-disaggregated (or any external-KV-connector) setup, a request with prompt_logprobs crashes the decode engine with OverflowError: out of range integral type conversion attempted.

prompt_logprobs needs per-position logits, which come from running the prompt forward. When an external KV connector (Mooncake / NIXL / LMCache) pre-fills the prompt KV, num_computed_tokens advances to prompt_len, so the engine skips the prompt forward and has no logits for the prompt positions.

In _get_prompt_logprobs_dict (vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py), the last-chunk branch ships the logprobs tensor before checking whether there is anything to fill:

else:  # last-chunk branch
    num_logits = num_remaining_tokens          # 0 / -1 because num_computed >= N-1
    completed_prefill_reqs.append(req_id)
    prompt_logprobs_dict[req_id] = logprobs_tensors   # ships the tensor
if num_logits <= 0:
    continue                                   # skips the copy_ that fills it

The tensor is created by LogprobsTensors.empty_cpu with torch.empty(dtype=torch.int32) (uninitialized). Since the request is remote-prefilled, this is the first and only entry into the function, so the tensor is shipped without a single copy_. The API server then decodes every id via tokenizer.decode, and a negative stale int32 overflows the u32 conversion in the Rust tokenizer, raising OverflowError.

The local prefix-cache path is not affected because skip_reading_prefix_cache=True (auto-set when prompt_logprobs is enabled) forces a local recompute from position 0; the external connector path does not honor this flag, so num_computed_tokens still jumps to prompt_len.

Fix: only add the tensor to prompt_logprobs_dict when num_logits > 0:

             else:
                 # This is the last chunk of prompt tokens to return.
                 num_logits = num_remaining_tokens
                 completed_prefill_reqs.append(req_id)
-                prompt_logprobs_dict[req_id] = logprobs_tensors
+                if num_logits > 0:
+                    prompt_logprobs_dict[req_id] = logprobs_tensors

Test Plan

Manual reproduction on a PD-disaggregated setup (1 prefiller + 1 decoder + example proxy) with a prompt_logprobs=1 non-streaming request.

Test Result

Setup	prompt_logprobs	Before	After
PD disagg (P+D)	yes	OverflowError, engine crash	no crash, request returns
PD disagg (P+D)	no	no crash	no crash (unchanged)
Single engine, no external connector	yes	no crash	no crash (unchanged)

Before the fix, the decoder logs:

ERROR [async_llm.py:704] AsyncLLM output_handler failed.
File ".../vllm/v1/engine/async_llm.py", line 675, in output_handler
File ".../vllm/v1/engine/output_processor.py", line 648, in process_outputs
File ".../vllm/v1/engine/logprobs.py", line 352, in update_from_output
    self._update_prompt_logprobs(output.new_prompt_logprobs_tensors)
File ".../vllm/v1/engine/logprobs.py", line 147, in _update_prompt_logprobs
    else convert_ids_list_to_tokens(
File ".../vllm/v1/tokenizers/detokenizer_utils.py", line 100, in convert_ids_list_to_tokens
    token_str = tokenizer.decode([token_id])
File ".../vllm/v1/tokenizers/hf.py", line 86, in decode
File ".../transformers/tokenization_utils_tokenizers.py", line 1032, in _decode
    text = self._tokenizer.decode(token_ids, skip_special_tokens=...)
OverflowError: out of range integral type conversion attempted

After the fix, the decoder no longer ships the unfilled tensor; new_prompt_logprobs_tensors is absent so _update_prompt_logprobs skips it, the engine stays alive, and the request returns normally.

A companion proxy-side change (to return real prompt_logprobs by harvesting them from the prefiller) will be filed separately against vllm-ascend, since that logic lives in the disagg example there.

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[Sanjays2402]

this also drops the tensor in the non-remote case the comment three lines down describes: a locally chunked prefill that computed exactly num_prompt_tokens-1 tokens in the prior step lands here with num_logits == 0, but its logprobs_tensors is fully populated from the earlier chunks, and now it never gets into prompt_logprobs_dict (and in_progress_prompt_logprobs_cpu is cleared right after via completed_prefill_reqs). would gating on request.num_computed_tokens == 0, or on whether any chunk was written, separate the two?

[lililcode9527]

Thanks for the catch. Gating on num_logits > 0 also drops the normal chunked-prefill final step (num_logits == 0, but the tensor is already full from earlier chunks). Updated to gate
on "any chunk written" via is_new = (in_progress_prompt_logprobs_cpu is None) at entry:

• is_new and num_logits <= 0 → externally pre-filled, tensor never written → don't ship (the crash case)
• not is_new → prior chunk already filled it → ship (the normal final step)
• num_logits > 0 → something to fill now → ship

num_computed_tokens == 0 doesn't separate them (it's N/N-1 at the last-chunk branch, same as normal). The request is still finalized via completed_prefill_reqs even when skipping
ship, so no re-entry. For PD-disagg, real prompt_logprobs come from a companion proxy fix (vllm-ascend#13366); this core fix handles the crash + normal/local case.