diff --git a/package/qemu/Config.in b/package/qemu/Config.in
index d6b2f95..f71311d 100644
--- a/package/qemu/Config.in
+++ b/package/qemu/Config.in
@@ -264,6 +264,13 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_QEMU_ATTR
 	  Say 'y' here to have QEMU support attributes (attr) and eXtended
 	  attibutes (xattr).
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_QEMU_SECCOMP
+	bool "Enable seccomp filter"
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBSECCOMP
+	help
+	  Say 'y' here to have QEMU to use the Linux kernel's seccomp filter,
+	  to more tightly confine the VMs.
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_QEMU_BLOBS
 	bool "Install binary blobs"
 	default y
diff --git a/package/qemu/qemu.mk b/package/qemu/qemu.mk
index 0cd1a37..ddee260 100644
--- a/package/qemu/qemu.mk
+++ b/package/qemu/qemu.mk
@@ -251,6 +251,13 @@ else
 QEMU_OPTS += --disable-attr
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_QEMU_SECCOMP),y)
+QEMU_OPTS += --enable-seccomp
+QEMU_DEPENDENCIES += libseccomp
+else
+QEMU_OPTS += --disable-seccomp
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_QEMU_BLOBS),)
 QEMU_OPTS += --disable-blobs
 endif
@@ -339,7 +346,6 @@ define QEMU_CONFIGURE_CMDS
 	        --disable-rbd                       \
 	        --disable-smartcard                 \
 	        --disable-strip                     \
-	        --disable-seccomp                   \
 	        --disable-sparse                    \
 	        --disable-tools                     \
 	        $(QEMU_OPTS)                        \