diff --git a/src/mcore_bridge/model/gpts/deepseek_v4.py b/src/mcore_bridge/model/gpts/deepseek_v4.py
index eb4c122..386e70e 100644
--- a/src/mcore_bridge/model/gpts/deepseek_v4.py
+++ b/src/mcore_bridge/model/gpts/deepseek_v4.py
@@ -80,11 +80,15 @@ def _apply_mla_rope(t, freqs, *, config, cu_seqlens, cp_group, inverse=False):
         f'freqs.shape[0]={freqs.shape[0]} vs tokens={t.shape[0]}. `GPTModel` must pre-index the '
         'rotary table by `position_ids` (requires `apply_rope_fusion=False`), and under CP the '
         '`position_ids` must be split with the same partition mode as the hidden states.')
+    # Do not forward cu_seqlens. The packed helper re-derives positions from it and, when
+    # cp_size > 1, assumes Megatron's zigzag split. DSv4 uses a contiguous split and already
+    # stores the absolute position in row i of `freqs`, so the elementwise bshd path is the
+    # one that matches this tensor. The argument stays so existing callers keep working.
     return apply_rotary_pos_emb(
         t,
         freqs,
         config=config,
-        cu_seqlens=cu_seqlens,
+        cu_seqlens=None,
         cp_group=cp_group,
         mla_rotary_interleaved=True,
         mla_output_remove_interleaving=True,
diff --git a/tests/test_dsv4_mla_rope.py b/tests/test_dsv4_mla_rope.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8958bcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_dsv4_mla_rope.py
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Copyright (c) ModelScope Contributors. All rights reserved.
+"""DSv4 RoPE must not hand packed cu_seqlens to Megatron's zigzag helper."""
+import ast
+import torch
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+def _load_apply():
+    path = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / 'src/mcore_bridge/model/gpts/deepseek_v4.py'
+    tree = ast.parse(path.read_text())
+    fn = next(node for node in tree.body if isinstance(node, ast.FunctionDef) and node.name == '_apply_mla_rope')
+    module = ast.Module(body=[fn], type_ignores=[])
+    ast.fix_missing_locations(module)
+    captured = {}
+
+    def apply_rotary_pos_emb(t, freqs, **kwargs):
+        captured['kwargs'] = kwargs
+        captured['t'] = t
+        captured['freqs'] = freqs
+        return t
+
+    namespace = {'apply_rotary_pos_emb': apply_rotary_pos_emb}
+    exec(compile(module, str(path), 'exec'), namespace)
+    return namespace['_apply_mla_rope'], captured
+
+
+def test_packed_cu_seqlens_are_not_forwarded():
+    apply, captured = _load_apply()
+    tokens = torch.zeros(4, 2, 8)
+    freqs = torch.zeros(4, 1, 1, 4)
+    cu = torch.tensor([0, 4])
+    apply(tokens, freqs, config=object(), cu_seqlens=cu, cp_group=object())
+    assert captured['kwargs']['cu_seqlens'] is None
+    assert captured['kwargs']['mla_rotary_interleaved'] is True
+    assert captured['t'] is tokens
+    assert captured['freqs'] is freqs
+
+
+def test_misaligned_frequencies_still_fail():
+    apply, _ = _load_apply()
+    try:
+        apply(torch.zeros(4, 1, 4), torch.zeros(3, 1, 1, 2), config=object(), cu_seqlens=None, cp_group=None)
+    except AssertionError as error:
+        assert 'row-aligned' in str(error)
+    else:
+        raise AssertionError('expected a row-alignment failure')