diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
index 16927fa88fbd..e75115a04a2e 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include <linux/usb.h>
 #include <linux/wait.h>
 #include <linux/usb/hcd.h>
+#include <linux/scatterlist.h>
 
 #define to_urb(d) container_of(d, struct urb, kref)
 
@@ -413,6 +414,13 @@ int usb_submit_urb(struct urb *urb, gfp_t mem_flags)
 			urb->iso_frame_desc[n].status = -EXDEV;
 			urb->iso_frame_desc[n].actual_length = 0;
 		}
+	} else if (dev->speed != USB_SPEED_WIRELESS && urb->num_sgs) {
+		struct scatterlist *sg;
+		int i;
+
+		for_each_sg(urb->sg, sg, urb->num_sgs - 1, i)
+			if (sg->length % max)
+				return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	/* the I/O buffer must be mapped/unmapped, except when length=0 */
diff --git a/include/linux/usb.h b/include/linux/usb.h
index a232b7ece1f6..e99b2a114af4 100644
--- a/include/linux/usb.h
+++ b/include/linux/usb.h
@@ -1258,7 +1258,9 @@ typedef void (*usb_complete_t)(struct urb *);
  *	the device driver is saying that it provided this DMA address,
  *	which the host controller driver should use in preference to the
  *	transfer_buffer.
- * @sg: scatter gather buffer list
+ * @sg: scatter gather buffer list, the buffer size of each element in
+ * 	the list (except the last) must be divisible by the endpoint's
+ * 	max packet size
  * @num_mapped_sgs: (internal) number of mapped sg entries
  * @num_sgs: number of entries in the sg list
  * @transfer_buffer_length: How big is transfer_buffer.  The transfer may