diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/configfs-usb-gadget-uvc b/Documentation/ABI/testing/configfs-usb-gadget-uvc
index 5dfaa3f7f6a4..839a75fc28ee 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/configfs-usb-gadget-uvc
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/configfs-usb-gadget-uvc
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Description:	UVC function directory
 		streaming_interval	1..16
 		function_name		string [32]
 		req_int_skip_div	unsigned int
+		sg_supported		0..1
 		===================	=============================
 
 What:		/config/usb-gadget/gadget/functions/uvc.name/control
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/gadget-testing.rst b/Documentation/usb/gadget-testing.rst
index f9b5a09be1f4..be72577a03e9 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/gadget-testing.rst
+++ b/Documentation/usb/gadget-testing.rst
@@ -796,6 +796,10 @@ The uvc function provides these attributes in its function directory:
 	function_name       name of the interface
 	req_int_skip_div    divisor of total requests to aid in calculating
 			    interrupt frequency, 0 indicates all interrupt
+	sg_supported        allow for scatter gather to be used if the UDC
+			    hw supports it, this is default on and only
+			    intended to be temporally turned off if a given
+			    platform doesn't work well with scatter gather
 	=================== ================================================
 
 There are also "control" and "streaming" subdirectories, each of which contain
diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uvc.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uvc.c
index e40ca26b9c55..83d96e81c05f 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uvc.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uvc.c
@@ -875,6 +875,7 @@ static struct usb_function_instance *uvc_alloc_inst(void)
 	opts->streaming_interval = 1;
 	opts->streaming_maxpacket = 1024;
 	opts->req_int_skip_div = 4;
+	opts->sg_supported = 1;
 	snprintf(opts->function_name, sizeof(opts->function_name), "UVC Camera");
 
 	ret = uvcg_attach_configfs(opts);
diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_uvc.h b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_uvc.h
index 6f73bd5638ed..5ccced629925 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_uvc.h
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_uvc.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ struct f_uvc_opts {
 	unsigned int					streaming_maxpacket;
 	unsigned int					streaming_maxburst;
 	unsigned int					req_int_skip_div;
+	unsigned int					sg_supported;
 
 	unsigned int					control_interface;
 	unsigned int					streaming_interface;
diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c
index 419e926ab57e..3784c0e02d01 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.c
@@ -2351,6 +2351,7 @@ UVCG_OPTS_ATTR(streaming_interval, streaming_interval, 16);
 UVCG_OPTS_ATTR(streaming_maxpacket, streaming_maxpacket, 3072);
 UVCG_OPTS_ATTR(streaming_maxburst, streaming_maxburst, 15);
 UVCG_OPTS_ATTR(req_int_skip_div, req_int_skip_div, UINT_MAX);
+UVCG_OPTS_ATTR(sg_supported, sg_supported, 1);
 
 #undef UVCG_OPTS_ATTR
 
@@ -2401,6 +2402,7 @@ static struct configfs_attribute *uvc_attrs[] = {
 	&f_uvc_opts_attr_streaming_maxpacket,
 	&f_uvc_opts_attr_streaming_maxburst,
 	&f_uvc_opts_attr_req_int_skip_div,
+	&f_uvc_opts_attr_sg_supported,
 	&f_uvc_opts_string_attr_function_name,
 	NULL,
 };
diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_queue.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_queue.c
index 02559906a55a..aee405663d6e 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_queue.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_queue.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <media/videobuf2-vmalloc.h>
 
 #include "uvc.h"
+#include "u_uvc.h"
 
 /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * Video buffers queue management.
@@ -141,6 +142,7 @@ int uvcg_queue_init(struct uvc_video_queue *queue, struct device *dev, enum v4l2
 {
 	struct uvc_video *video = container_of(queue, struct uvc_video, queue);
 	struct usb_composite_dev *cdev = video->uvc->func.config->cdev;
+	struct f_uvc_opts *opts = fi_to_f_uvc_opts(video->uvc->func.fi);
 	int ret;
 
 	queue->queue.type = type;
@@ -149,7 +151,7 @@ int uvcg_queue_init(struct uvc_video_queue *queue, struct device *dev, enum v4l2
 	queue->queue.buf_struct_size = sizeof(struct uvc_buffer);
 	queue->queue.ops = &uvc_queue_qops;
 	queue->queue.lock = lock;
-	if (cdev->gadget->sg_supported) {
+	if (opts->sg_supported && cdev->gadget->sg_supported) {
 		queue->queue.mem_ops = &vb2_dma_sg_memops;
 		queue->use_sg = 1;
 	} else {
