--- title: How to write Rust in the kernel: part 3 | daily.dev description: Explores the Rust bindings available for kernel development, covering memory allocation with KBox and allocator types, handling self-referential structures... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-write-rust-in-the-kernel-part-3-rcr6owa7g twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to write Rust in the kernel: part 3 | daily.dev og:description: Explores the Rust bindings available for kernel development, covering memory allocation with KBox and allocator types, handling self-referential structures... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-write-rust-in-the-kernel-part-3-rcr6owa7g og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rcr6owa7G.png og:image:alt: How to write Rust in the kernel: part 3 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to write Rust in the kernel: part 3 **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 16 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Explores the Rust bindings available for kernel development, covering memory allocation with KBox and allocator types, handling self-referential structures through pinning mechanisms, and implementing locks that integrate with kernel's lockdep validation. The article demonstrates how Rust's type system provides compile-time safety guarantees while working with kernel APIs, including examples of mutex usage and memory management patterns specific to kernel space programming. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-write-rust-in-the-kernel-part-3-rcr6owa7g) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How to write Rust in the kernel: part 3","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-write-rust-in-the-kernel-part-3-rcr6owa7g","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-write-rust-in-the-kernel-part-3-rcr6owa7g"},"datePublished":"2025-07-19T03:33:07.462Z","dateModified":"2025-07-19T03:33:33.504Z","description":"Explores the Rust bindings available for kernel development, covering memory allocation with KBox and allocator types, handling self-referential structures...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/fetch/s--L8gutMxP--/f_auto,pg_1,q_auto/https://s.zkcdn.net/Advertisers/cd6f5d2663a14317a5a6100edf0fa808.gif?_a=BAMAMiZY0","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/fetch/s--L8gutMxP--/f_auto,pg_1,q_auto/https://s.zkcdn.net/Advertisers/cd6f5d2663a14317a5a6100edf0fa808.gif?_a=BAMAMiZY0","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-write-rust-in-the-kernel-part-3-rcr6owa7g","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"linux,rust","timeRequired":"PT16M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"How to write Rust in the kernel: part 3"}]} ```