[Frontend] Multi-Modality Support for Loading Local Image Files

tests/multimodal/test_utils.py

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 import base64
 import mimetypes
-from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
+import os
+from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile, TemporaryDirectory
 from typing import Dict, Tuple
 
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
-from PIL import Image
+from PIL import Image, ImageChops
 from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoTokenizer
 
 from vllm.multimodal.utils import (async_fetch_image, fetch_image,
@@ -84,6 +85,40 @@ async def test_fetch_image_base64(url_images: Dict[str, Image.Image],
         assert _image_equals(data_image_sync, data_image_async)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("image_url", TEST_IMAGE_URLS)
+async def test_fetch_image_local_files(image_url: str):
+    with TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir:
+        origin_image = fetch_image(image_url)
+        origin_image.save(os.path.join(temp_dir, os.path.basename(image_url)),
+                          quality=100,
+                          icc_profile=origin_image.info.get('icc_profile'))
+
+        image_async = await async_fetch_image(
+            f"file://{temp_dir}/{os.path.basename(image_url)}",
+            allowed_local_media_path=temp_dir)
+
+        image_sync = fetch_image(
+            f"file://{temp_dir}/{os.path.basename(image_url)}",
+            allowed_local_media_path=temp_dir)
+        # Check that the images are equal
+        assert not ImageChops.difference(image_sync, image_async).getbbox()
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+            await async_fetch_image(
+                f"file://{temp_dir}/../{os.path.basename(image_url)}",
+                allowed_local_media_path=temp_dir)
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+            await async_fetch_image(
+                f"file://{temp_dir}/../{os.path.basename(image_url)}")
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+            fetch_image(f"file://{temp_dir}/../{os.path.basename(image_url)}",
+                        allowed_local_media_path=temp_dir)
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+            fetch_image(f"file://{temp_dir}/../{os.path.basename(image_url)}")
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("model", ["llava-hf/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf"])
 def test_repeat_and_pad_placeholder_tokens(model):
     config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model)

vllm/config.py

@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ class ModelConfig:
             "mistral" will always use the tokenizer from `mistral_common`.
         trust_remote_code: Trust remote code (e.g., from HuggingFace) when
             downloading the model and tokenizer.
+        allowed_local_media_path: Allowing API requests to read local images or
+            videos from directories specified by the server file system.
+            This is a security risk. Should only be enabled in trusted
+            environments.
         dtype: Data type for model weights and activations. The "auto" option
             will use FP16 precision for FP32 and FP16 models, and BF16 precision
             for BF16 models.
@@ -134,6 +138,7 @@ def __init__(
             trust_remote_code: bool,
             dtype: Union[str, torch.dtype],
             seed: int,
+            allowed_local_media_path: str = "",
             revision: Optional[str] = None,
             code_revision: Optional[str] = None,
             rope_scaling: Optional[dict] = None,
@@ -164,6 +169,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.tokenizer = tokenizer
         self.tokenizer_mode = tokenizer_mode
         self.trust_remote_code = trust_remote_code
+        self.allowed_local_media_path = allowed_local_media_path
         self.seed = seed
         self.revision = revision
         self.code_revision = code_revision
@@ -1319,6 +1325,8 @@ def maybe_create_spec_config(
                 tokenizer=target_model_config.tokenizer,
                 tokenizer_mode=target_model_config.tokenizer_mode,
                 trust_remote_code=target_model_config.trust_remote_code,
+                allowed_local_media_path=target_model_config.
+                allowed_local_media_path,
                 dtype=target_model_config.dtype,
                 seed=target_model_config.seed,
                 revision=draft_revision,

vllm/engine/arg_utils.py

@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ class EngineArgs:
     tokenizer_mode: str = 'auto'
     chat_template_text_format: str = 'string'
     trust_remote_code: bool = False
+    allowed_local_media_path: str = ""
     download_dir: Optional[str] = None
     load_format: str = 'auto'
     config_format: ConfigFormat = ConfigFormat.AUTO
@@ -269,6 +270,13 @@ def add_cli_args(parser: FlexibleArgumentParser) -> FlexibleArgumentParser:
         parser.add_argument('--trust-remote-code',
                             action='store_true',
                             help='Trust remote code from huggingface.')
+        parser.add_argument(
+            '--allowed-local-media-path',
+            type=str,
+            help="Allowing API requests to read local images or videos"
+            "from directories specified by the server file system."
+            "This is a security risk."
+            "Should only be enabled in trusted environments")
         parser.add_argument('--download-dir',
                             type=nullable_str,
                             default=EngineArgs.download_dir,
@@ -920,6 +928,7 @@ def create_model_config(self) -> ModelConfig:
             tokenizer_mode=self.tokenizer_mode,
             chat_template_text_format=self.chat_template_text_format,
             trust_remote_code=self.trust_remote_code,
+            allowed_local_media_path=self.allowed_local_media_path,
             dtype=self.dtype,
             seed=self.seed,
             revision=self.revision,

vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py

@@ -307,7 +307,9 @@ def __init__(self, tracker: MultiModalItemTracker) -> None:
         self._tracker = tracker
 
     def parse_image(self, image_url: str) -> None:
-        image = get_and_parse_image(image_url)
+        image = get_and_parse_image(image_url,
+                                    allowed_local_media_path=self._tracker.
+                                    _model_config.allowed_local_media_path)
 
         placeholder = self._tracker.add("image", image)
         self._add_placeholder(placeholder)
@@ -327,7 +329,10 @@ def __init__(self, tracker: AsyncMultiModalItemTracker) -> None:
         self._tracker = tracker
 
     def parse_image(self, image_url: str) -> None:
-        image_coro = async_get_and_parse_image(image_url)
+        image_coro = async_get_and_parse_image(
+            image_url,
+            allowed_local_media_path=self._tracker._model_config.
+            allowed_local_media_path)
 
         placeholder = self._tracker.add("image", image_coro)
         self._add_placeholder(placeholder)

vllm/entrypoints/llm.py

@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ class LLM:
             from the input.
         trust_remote_code: Trust remote code (e.g., from HuggingFace) when
             downloading the model and tokenizer.
+        allowed_local_media_path: Allowing API requests to read local images
+            or videos from directories specified by the server file system.
+            This is a security risk. Should only be enabled in trusted
+            environments.
         tensor_parallel_size: The number of GPUs to use for distributed
             execution with tensor parallelism.
         dtype: The data type for the model weights and activations. Currently,
@@ -139,6 +143,7 @@ def __init__(
         tokenizer_mode: str = "auto",
         skip_tokenizer_init: bool = False,
         trust_remote_code: bool = False,
+        allowed_local_media_path: str = "",
         tensor_parallel_size: int = 1,
         dtype: str = "auto",
         quantization: Optional[str] = None,
@@ -179,6 +184,7 @@ def __init__(
             tokenizer_mode=tokenizer_mode,
             skip_tokenizer_init=skip_tokenizer_init,
             trust_remote_code=trust_remote_code,
+            allowed_local_media_path=allowed_local_media_path,
             tensor_parallel_size=tensor_parallel_size,
             dtype=dtype,
             quantization=quantization,

vllm/multimodal/utils.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import base64
+import os
 from functools import lru_cache
 from io import BytesIO
 from typing import Any, List, Optional, Tuple, TypeVar, Union
@@ -18,19 +19,60 @@
 cached_get_tokenizer = lru_cache(get_tokenizer)
 
 
-def _load_image_from_bytes(b: bytes):
+def _load_image_from_bytes(b: bytes) -> Image.Image:
     image = Image.open(BytesIO(b))
     image.load()
     return image
 
 
-def _load_image_from_data_url(image_url: str):
+def _is_subpath(image_path: str, allowed_local_media_path: str) -> bool:
+    # Get the common path
+    common_path = os.path.commonpath([
+        os.path.abspath(image_path),
+        os.path.abspath(allowed_local_media_path)
+    ])
+    # Check if the common path is the same as allowed_local_media_path
+    return common_path == os.path.abspath(allowed_local_media_path)
+
+
+def _load_image_from_file(image_url: str,
+                          allowed_local_media_path: str) -> Image.Image:
+    if not allowed_local_media_path:
+        raise ValueError("Invalid 'image_url': Cannot load local files without"
+                         "'--allowed-local-media-path'.")
+    if allowed_local_media_path:
+        if not os.path.exists(allowed_local_media_path):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Invalid '--allowed-local-media-path': "
+                f"The path {allowed_local_media_path} does not exist.")
+        if not os.path.isdir(allowed_local_media_path):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Invalid '--allowed-local-media-path': "
+                f"The path {allowed_local_media_path} must be a directory.")
+
+    # Only split once and assume the second part is the image path
+    _, image_path = image_url.split("file://", 1)
+    if not _is_subpath(image_path, allowed_local_media_path):
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"Invalid 'image_url': The file path {image_path} must"
+            " be a subpath of '--allowed-local-media-path'"
+            f" '{allowed_local_media_path}'.")
+
+    image = Image.open(image_path)
+    image.load()
+    return image
+
+
+def _load_image_from_data_url(image_url: str) -> Image.Image:
     # Only split once and assume the second part is the base64 encoded image
     _, image_base64 = image_url.split(",", 1)
     return load_image_from_base64(image_base64)
 
 
-def fetch_image(image_url: str, *, image_mode: str = "RGB") -> Image.Image:
+def fetch_image(image_url: str,
+                *,
+                image_mode: str = "RGB",
+                allowed_local_media_path: str = "") -> Image.Image:
     """
     Load a PIL image from a HTTP or base64 data URL.
 
@@ -43,16 +85,19 @@ def fetch_image(image_url: str, *, image_mode: str = "RGB") -> Image.Image:
 
     elif image_url.startswith('data:image'):
         image = _load_image_from_data_url(image_url)
+    elif image_url.startswith('file://'):
+        image = _load_image_from_file(image_url, allowed_local_media_path)
     else:
         raise ValueError("Invalid 'image_url': A valid 'image_url' must start "
-                         "with either 'data:image' or 'http'.")
+                         "with either 'data:image', 'file://' or 'http'.")
 
     return image.convert(image_mode)
 
 
 async def async_fetch_image(image_url: str,
                             *,
-                            image_mode: str = "RGB") -> Image.Image:
+                            image_mode: str = "RGB",
+                            allowed_local_media_path: str = "") -> Image.Image:
     """
     Asynchronously load a PIL image from a HTTP or base64 data URL.
 
@@ -65,9 +110,11 @@ async def async_fetch_image(image_url: str,
 
     elif image_url.startswith('data:image'):
         image = _load_image_from_data_url(image_url)
+    elif image_url.startswith('file://'):
+        image = _load_image_from_file(image_url, allowed_local_media_path)
     else:
         raise ValueError("Invalid 'image_url': A valid 'image_url' must start "
-                         "with either 'data:image' or 'http'.")
+                         "with either 'data:image', 'file://' or 'http'.")
 
     return image.convert(image_mode)
 
@@ -126,8 +173,12 @@ def get_and_parse_audio(audio_url: str) -> MultiModalDataDict:
     return {"audio": (audio, sr)}
 
 
-def get_and_parse_image(image_url: str) -> MultiModalDataDict:
-    image = fetch_image(image_url)
+def get_and_parse_image(
+        image_url: str,
+        *,
+        allowed_local_media_path: str = "") -> MultiModalDataDict:
+    image = fetch_image(image_url,
+                        allowed_local_media_path=allowed_local_media_path)
     return {"image": image}
 
 
@@ -136,8 +187,12 @@ async def async_get_and_parse_audio(audio_url: str) -> MultiModalDataDict:
     return {"audio": (audio, sr)}
 
 
-async def async_get_and_parse_image(image_url: str) -> MultiModalDataDict:
-    image = await async_fetch_image(image_url)
+async def async_get_and_parse_image(
+        image_url: str,
+        *,
+        allowed_local_media_path: str = "") -> MultiModalDataDict:
+    image = await async_fetch_image(
+        image_url, allowed_local_media_path=allowed_local_media_path)
     return {"image": image}