diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c b/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c
index 6b5eb1017e2c..e37dea87bb56 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c
@@ -565,6 +565,9 @@ static int uhci_start(struct usb_hcd *hcd)
 	struct dentry __maybe_unused *dentry;
 
 	hcd->uses_new_polling = 1;
+	/* Accept arbitrarily long scatter-gather lists */
+	if (!(hcd->driver->flags & HCD_LOCAL_MEM))
+		hcd->self.sg_tablesize = ~0;
 
 	spin_lock_init(&uhci->lock);
 	setup_timer(&uhci->fsbr_timer, uhci_fsbr_timeout,