diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 290f0865fd85..c9a9f928dddf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -2692,6 +2692,19 @@ config MITIGATION_L1TF
 	  hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data
 	  available in the Level 1 Data Cache.
 	  See <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
+
+config MITIGATION_RETBLEED
+	bool "Mitigate RETBleed hardware bug"
+	depends on (CPU_SUP_INTEL && MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2) || MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY || MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY
+	default y
+	help
+	  Enable mitigation for RETBleed (Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution
+	  with Return Instructions) vulnerability.  RETBleed is a speculative
+	  execution attack which takes advantage of microarchitectural behavior
+	  in many modern microprocessors, similar to Spectre v2. An
+	  unprivileged attacker can use these flaws to bypass conventional
+	  memory security restrictions to gain read access to privileged memory
+	  that would otherwise be inaccessible.
 endif
 
 config ARCH_HAS_ADD_PAGES
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index 4fde9bd368ad..08edca8c2c1f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -989,7 +989,7 @@ static const char * const retbleed_strings[] = {
 static enum retbleed_mitigation retbleed_mitigation __ro_after_init =
 	RETBLEED_MITIGATION_NONE;
 static enum retbleed_mitigation_cmd retbleed_cmd __ro_after_init =
-	RETBLEED_CMD_AUTO;
+	IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETBLEED) ? RETBLEED_CMD_AUTO : RETBLEED_CMD_OFF;
 
 static int __ro_after_init retbleed_nosmt = false;