diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a652c8415e460b..e27f2e96d9a6a6 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -526,7 +526,8 @@ KBUILD_RUSTCFLAGS := --emit=dep-info,obj,metadata --edition=2018 \
 		     -Cpanic=abort -Cembed-bitcode=n -Clto=n -Crpath=n \
 		     -Cforce-unwind-tables=n -Ccodegen-units=1 \
 		     -Zbinary_dep_depinfo=y -Zsymbol-mangling-version=v0 \
-		     -Dunsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn -Wmissing_docs
+		     -Dunsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn -Drust_2018_idioms \
+		     -Wmissing_docs
 KBUILD_CLIPPYFLAGS := -Dclippy::correctness -Dclippy::style \
 		      -Dclippy::complexity -Dclippy::perf
 KBUILD_AFLAGS_KERNEL :=
diff --git a/drivers/android/rust_binder.rs b/drivers/android/rust_binder.rs
index 8f457913154afe..c39c081af574de 100644
--- a/drivers/android/rust_binder.rs
+++ b/drivers/android/rust_binder.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 #![no_std]
 #![feature(global_asm, try_reserve, allocator_api, concat_idents)]
+// TODO: clean these up
+#![allow(rust_2018_idioms)]
 
 use alloc::{boxed::Box, sync::Arc};
 use core::pin::Pin;
diff --git a/rust/compiler_builtins.rs b/rust/compiler_builtins.rs
index 79e4d887529627..cb4bbf7be4e313 100644
--- a/rust/compiler_builtins.rs
+++ b/rust/compiler_builtins.rs
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ extern "C" {
 }
 
 #[panic_handler]
-fn panic(_info: &core::panic::PanicInfo) -> ! {
+fn panic(_info: &core::panic::PanicInfo<'_>) -> ! {
     unsafe {
         rust_helper_BUG();
     }
diff --git a/rust/kernel/lib.rs b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
index d868f36b49d8d7..65643d061db579 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/lib.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
     receiver_trait,
     try_reserve
 )]
-#![deny(rust_2018_idioms)]
 
 // Ensure conditional compilation based on the kernel configuration works;
 // otherwise we may silently break things like initcall handling.