From 0a32c8697ca2da844fabee2c69494a9b570ae46c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SIDDARTHA REDDY <75976672+SIDDARTHAREDDY8@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:24:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: pass backend="cpu" when requesting CPU gemm_4bit_forward
 kernel

---
 bitsandbytes/backends/cpu/ops.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 mode change 100755 => 100644 bitsandbytes/backends/cpu/ops.py

diff --git a/bitsandbytes/backends/cpu/ops.py b/bitsandbytes/backends/cpu/ops.py
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index 44fb5dceb..9fb2e7c44
--- a/bitsandbytes/backends/cpu/ops.py
+++ b/bitsandbytes/backends/cpu/ops.py
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ def _(
             from kernels import get_kernel
 
             gemm_4bit_forward_kernel = get_kernel(
-                "kernels-community/quantization-bitsandbytes", version=1
+                "kernels-community/quantization-bitsandbytes", version=1, backend="cpu"
             ).gemm_4bit_forward
         except Exception as exc:  # pragma: no cover - best effort fallback
             gemm_4bit_forward_kernel = None