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Fix local_files_only tokenizer fallback when tokenizer files are missing (Issue 45538)#45541

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Fix local_files_only tokenizer fallback when tokenizer files are missing (Issue 45538)#45541
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What does this PR do?

Fixes #45538

Root Cause

from_pretrained(..., local_files_only=True) let missing tokenizer files resolve to None and still proceeded into _from_pretrained(...). That allowed a stub tokenizer to initialize instead of raising, which led to the bogus huge model_max_length.

Describe the Fix

The fix adds a fail-closed check in PreTrainedTokenizerBase.from_pretrained.

After resolving files, it now checks whether all real tokenizer assets for that class resolved to None.
If they did, it raises the existing Can't load tokenizer... OSError instead of continuing into
_from_pretrained(...) and constructing a stub tokenizer

Local Tests

  • Check with BertTokenizer and CLIPTokenizer using a nonexistent model id and
    local_files_only=True.
    Before the fix, they loaded unexpectedly with the huge fallback max length.
    After the fix, they raised the expected OSError.

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CLIPTokenizer uses 10**30 as model_max_length

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