diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/whisper.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/whisper.py
index cb54b4c3ba66..c1f3bb0ca33c 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/whisper.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/whisper.py
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ def __init__(
             cache_config=cache_config,
             quant_config=quant_config,
             prefix=f"{prefix}.attn",
+            attn_type=self.attn_type,
         )
 
     def _init_qkv(
@@ -134,12 +135,7 @@ def forward(
         qkv, _ = self.qkv_proj(hidden_states)
         q, k, v = qkv.split([self.q_size, self.kv_size, self.kv_size], dim=-1)
 
-        attn_output = self.attn(q,
-                                k,
-                                v,
-                                kv_cache,
-                                attn_metadata,
-                                attn_type=self.attn_type)
+        attn_output = self.attn(q, k, v, kv_cache, attn_metadata)
 
         output, _ = self.out_proj(attn_output)
 
@@ -164,6 +160,7 @@ def __init__(
             cache_config=cache_config,
             quant_config=quant_config,
             prefix=prefix,
+            attn_type=AttentionType.ENCODER_DECODER,
         )
 
     def _init_qkv(
@@ -207,12 +204,13 @@ def forward(
         else:
             k = v = None
 
-        attn_output = self.attn(q,
-                                k,
-                                v,
-                                kv_cache,
-                                attn_metadata,
-                                attn_type=AttentionType.ENCODER_DECODER)
+        attn_output = self.attn(
+            q,
+            k,
+            v,
+            kv_cache,
+            attn_metadata,
+        )
 
         output, _ = self.out_proj(attn_output)
 
@@ -734,4 +732,4 @@ def load_weights(self, weights: Iterable[Tuple[str,
         loaded_weights = [(name, loaded_weight)
                           for name, loaded_weight in weights]
         mapper = WeightsMapper({".fc1.": ".mlp.fc1.", ".fc2.": ".mlp.fc2."})
-        return loader.load_weights(loaded_weights, mapper=mapper)
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+        return loader.load_weights(loaded_weights, mapper=mapper)