io->urbs [i]->status = -EINPROGRESS;
                io->urbs [i]->actual_length = 0;
 
+               /*
+                * Some systems need to revert to PIO when DMA is temporarily
+                * unavailable.  For their sakes, both transfer_buffer and
+                * transfer_dma are set when possible.  However this can only
+                * work on systems without HIGHMEM, since DMA buffers located
+                * in high memory are not directly addressable by the CPU for
+                * PIO ... so when HIGHMEM is in use, transfer_buffer is NULL
+                * to prevent stale pointers and to help spot bugs.
+                */
                if (dma) {
-                       /* hc may use _only_ transfer_dma */
                        io->urbs [i]->transfer_dma = sg_dma_address (sg + i);
                        len = sg_dma_len (sg + i);
+#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
+                       io->urbs[i]->transfer_buffer = NULL;
+#else
+                       io->urbs[i]->transfer_buffer =
+                               page_address(sg[i].page) + sg[i].offset;
+#endif
                } else {
                        /* hc may use _only_ transfer_buffer */
                        io->urbs [i]->transfer_buffer =