From f977addf06c1c18f3490bf5ed9b25d2196cd956c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wagner Bruna <wbruna@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 11:10:12 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix: disable batch_cfg for Metal when building with upstream
 ggml (#2311)

---
 src/pipeline/diffusion_engine.cpp | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/pipeline/diffusion_engine.cpp b/src/pipeline/diffusion_engine.cpp
index 1ec292c1..e8afbd19 100644
--- a/src/pipeline/diffusion_engine.cpp
+++ b/src/pipeline/diffusion_engine.cpp
@@ -2440,6 +2440,15 @@ sd::Tensor<float> StableDiffusionGGML::sample(const std::shared_ptr<DiffusionMod
                                                         : sampling_init_latent;
     sd::Tensor<float> denoised                    = x_t;
 
+#ifdef SD_USE_UPSTREAM_GGML
+    // workaround for sd.cpp #2149
+    const auto diffusion_backends = backend_manager.runtime_backends(SDBackendModule::DIFFUSION);
+    const bool batch_cfg_backend_ok = std::none_of(diffusion_backends.begin(), diffusion_backends.end(),
+            [](ggml_backend_t backend) { return sd_backend_is(backend, "MTL"); });
+#else
+    const bool batch_cfg_backend_ok = true;
+#endif
+
     auto denoise = [&](const sd::Tensor<float>& x, float sigma, int step) -> sd::guidance::GuiderOutput {
         if (get_cancel_flag() == SD_CANCEL_ALL) {
             LOG_VERBOSE("cancelling generation");
@@ -2762,6 +2771,7 @@ sd::Tensor<float> StableDiffusionGGML::sample(const std::shared_ptr<DiffusionMod
         }
 
         const bool batch_cfg_ok = config_->params.batched_cfg &&
+                                  batch_cfg_backend_ok &&
                                   sd_version_is_unet(version) &&
                                   !uncond.empty() &&
                                   img_uncond.empty() &&