diff --git a/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/attention/xformers.py b/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/attention/xformers.py
index 8e7eba42e..394169eef 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/attention/xformers.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/attention/xformers.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ def xformers_attention_forward(
     key = key.transpose(1, 2)
     value = value.transpose(1, 2)
     query_length = query.shape[2]
+    batch_size = query.size(0)
 
     attn_bias = xformers.ops.LowerTriangularMask()
 
@@ -49,8 +50,6 @@ def xformers_attention_forward(
         max_length_q is not None
         or (query_length != 1 and not (torch.diff(position_ids, dim=-1) >= 0).all())
     ):
-        batch_size = query.size(0)
-
         if cu_seq_lens_q is None or cu_seq_lens_k is None:
             cu_seq_lens_q = get_cu_seqlens_from_pos_ids(position_ids)[0]
             cu_seq_lens_q = cu_seq_lens_q.squeeze()
@@ -83,7 +82,6 @@ def xformers_attention_forward(
             attn_bias=attn_bias,
         )
     elif attention_mask is not None:
-        batch_size = query.shape[0]
         query, key, value, indices_q, cu_seq_lens, _ = _upad_input(
             query, key, value, attention_mask, query_length
         )