From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jmorganca <jmorganca@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 20:35:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix string arr kv loading

certain models would error when loading
kv metadata fields that contain an array of strings
such as vocab fields
---
 ggml/include/gguf.h | 1 +
 ggml/src/gguf.cpp   | 7 +++++--
 src/llama-vocab.cpp | 4 +---
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ggml/include/gguf.h b/ggml/include/gguf.h
index 79ee2020..3efb22f0 100644
--- a/ggml/include/gguf.h
+++ b/ggml/include/gguf.h
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ extern "C" {
     // get raw pointer to the first element of the array with the given key_id
     // for bool arrays, note that they are always stored as int8 on all platforms (usually this makes no difference)
     GGML_API const void * gguf_get_arr_data(const struct gguf_context * ctx, int64_t key_id);
+    GGML_API size_t       gguf_get_arr_data_n(const struct gguf_context * ctx, int64_t key_id);
 
     // get ith C string from array with given key_id
     GGML_API const char * gguf_get_arr_str (const struct gguf_context * ctx, int64_t key_id, size_t i);
diff --git a/ggml/src/gguf.cpp b/ggml/src/gguf.cpp
index 53504399..0f71d5f3 100644
--- a/ggml/src/gguf.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/gguf.cpp
@@ -805,10 +805,14 @@ enum gguf_type gguf_get_arr_type(const struct gguf_context * ctx, int64_t key_id
 
 const void * gguf_get_arr_data(const struct gguf_context * ctx, int64_t key_id) {
     GGML_ASSERT(key_id >= 0 && key_id < gguf_get_n_kv(ctx));
-    GGML_ASSERT(ctx->kv[key_id].get_type() != GGUF_TYPE_STRING);
     return ctx->kv[key_id].data.data();
 }
 
+size_t gguf_get_arr_data_n(const struct gguf_context * ctx, int64_t key_id) {
+    GGML_ASSERT(key_id >= 0 && key_id < gguf_get_n_kv(ctx));
+    return ctx->kv[key_id].data.size();
+}
+
 const char * gguf_get_arr_str(const struct gguf_context * ctx, int64_t key_id, size_t i) {
     GGML_ASSERT(key_id >= 0 && key_id < gguf_get_n_kv(ctx));
     GGML_ASSERT(ctx->kv[key_id].get_type() == GGUF_TYPE_STRING);
@@ -902,7 +906,6 @@ const char * gguf_get_val_str(const struct gguf_context * ctx, int64_t key_id) {
 const void * gguf_get_val_data(const struct gguf_context * ctx, int64_t key_id) {
     GGML_ASSERT(key_id >= 0 && key_id < gguf_get_n_kv(ctx));
     GGML_ASSERT(ctx->kv[key_id].get_ne() == 1);
-    GGML_ASSERT(ctx->kv[key_id].get_type() != GGUF_TYPE_STRING);
     return ctx->kv[key_id].data.data();
 }
 
diff --git a/src/llama-vocab.cpp b/src/llama-vocab.cpp
index c011008f..fa388b03 100644
--- a/src/llama-vocab.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-vocab.cpp
@@ -1760,9 +1760,7 @@ void llama_vocab::impl::load(llama_model_loader & ml, const LLM_KV & kv) {
             const int precompiled_charsmap_keyidx = gguf_find_key(ctx, kv(LLM_KV_TOKENIZER_PRECOMPILED_CHARSMAP).c_str());
             if (precompiled_charsmap_keyidx != -1) {
                 const gguf_type pc_type = gguf_get_arr_type(ctx, precompiled_charsmap_keyidx);
-                GGML_ASSERT(pc_type == GGUF_TYPE_INT8 || pc_type == GGUF_TYPE_UINT8);
-
-                const size_t n_precompiled_charsmap = gguf_get_arr_n(ctx, precompiled_charsmap_keyidx);
+                const size_t n_precompiled_charsmap = gguf_get_arr_data_n(ctx, precompiled_charsmap_keyidx);
                 const char * pc = (const char *) gguf_get_arr_data(ctx, precompiled_charsmap_keyidx);
                 precompiled_charsmap.assign(pc, pc + n_precompiled_charsmap);
 #ifdef IS_BIG_ENDIAN
