cuda: refuse unsafe host fallback during SSD streaming - #737
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Problem
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is an approximately 80 GiB GGUF, so the CUDA path must use SSD streaming on a 16 GiB RTX 4060 Ti. When the bounded device range cache or arena could not satisfy a request, the generic resolver could fall through to
cuda_model_ptr()and return a host mmap address to a CUDA kernel. Under sustained layer traffic that becomes host/device pointer confusion and can surface as an illegal memory access.Change
The refusal is deliberate: a failed streamed weight lookup is diagnosable and recoverable by the caller; a host address reaching a CUDA kernel is silent memory corruption or an illegal access.
Validation
Builds completed with no compiler warnings:
git diff --checkis clean. The build target was an RTX 4060 Ti 16 GiB (sm_89), with the DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 IQ2XXS SSD-streamed GGUF. End-to-end CUDA execution was not available in this coding environment; the runtime reproduction and follow-up smoke tests were performed from the user's driver-visible shell on the integration branch.Scope
This is the safety boundary only. Async uploads and persistent expert reuse are separate follow-up changes.