diff --git a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/shared_storage_connector.py b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/shared_storage_connector.py
index d0cd4b07c51d..d8daca87fc23 100644
--- a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/shared_storage_connector.py
+++ b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/shared_storage_connector.py
@@ -174,12 +174,10 @@ class SharedStorageConnector(KVConnectorBase_V1):
                 # Only process layers that have kv_cache
                 # attribute (attention layers) Skip non-attention
                 # layers like FusedMoE/MLP etc.
-                kv_cache_attr = getattr(layer, "kv_cache", None)
-                if kv_cache_attr is None:
+                kv_cache_layer = getattr(layer, "kv_cache", None)
+                if kv_cache_layer is None:
                     continue
 
-                kv_cache_layer = kv_cache_attr[forward_context.virtual_engine]
-
                 filename = self._generate_filename_debug(
                     layer_name, request.token_ids, request.mm_hashes
                 )