diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/infrastructure.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/infrastructure.rst
index 3d52dfdfa9fdfca49ca0dd0a4b359da4780677a2..35e36fee4238a706d46dafa2238863d16899a947 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/infrastructure.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/infrastructure.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ Device Drivers Base
 .. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/class.c
    :export:
 
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/faux.h
+   :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/faux.c
+   :export:
+
 .. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/node.c
    :internal:
 
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index f9228f9b7d534323233ae618ac1105fbd63558fb..efee40ea589f70bc5e4a390072a4543234616743 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -7108,8 +7108,10 @@ F:	rust/kernel/device.rs
 F:	rust/kernel/device_id.rs
 F:	rust/kernel/devres.rs
 F:	rust/kernel/driver.rs
+F:	rust/kernel/faux.rs
 F:	rust/kernel/platform.rs
 F:	samples/rust/rust_driver_platform.rs
+F:	samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs
 
 DRIVERS FOR OMAP ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE SCALING (AVS)
 M:	Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
diff --git a/drivers/base/Makefile b/drivers/base/Makefile
index 7fb21768ca36d5b335dddf55d4e161df6e8b63e6..8074a10183dcb720a6b820b8476b230716b37f01 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/base/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ obj-y			:= component.o core.o bus.o dd.o syscore.o \
 			   cpu.o firmware.o init.o map.o devres.o \
 			   attribute_container.o transport_class.o \
 			   topology.o container.o property.o cacheinfo.o \
-			   swnode.o
+			   swnode.o faux.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_AUXILIARY_BUS) += auxiliary.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DEVTMPFS)	+= devtmpfs.o
 obj-y			+= power/
diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h
index 8cf04a557bdb0ddcd5281d760f2a9c2701d7543c..0042e4774b0ce796e71c9fd3e9c92db00f250f60 100644
--- a/drivers/base/base.h
+++ b/drivers/base/base.h
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ int hypervisor_init(void);
 static inline int hypervisor_init(void) { return 0; }
 #endif
 int platform_bus_init(void);
+int faux_bus_init(void);
 void cpu_dev_init(void);
 void container_dev_init(void);
 #ifdef CONFIG_AUXILIARY_BUS
diff --git a/drivers/base/faux.c b/drivers/base/faux.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..531e9d789ee042cca1a004fd838c0b402545c34d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/base/faux.c
@@ -0,0 +1,232 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 The Linux Foundation
+ *
+ * A "simple" faux bus that allows devices to be created and added
+ * automatically to it.  This is to be used whenever you need to create a
+ * device that is not associated with any "real" system resources, and do
+ * not want to have to deal with a bus/driver binding logic.  It is
+ * intended to be very simple, with only a create and a destroy function
+ * available.
+ */
+#include <linux/err.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/container_of.h>
+#include <linux/device/faux.h>
+#include "base.h"
+
+/*
+ * Internal wrapper structure so we can hold a pointer to the
+ * faux_device_ops for this device.
+ */
+struct faux_object {
+	struct faux_device faux_dev;
+	const struct faux_device_ops *faux_ops;
+};
+#define to_faux_object(dev) container_of_const(dev, struct faux_object, faux_dev.dev)
+
+static struct device faux_bus_root = {
+	.init_name	= "faux",
+};
+
+static int faux_match(struct device *dev, const struct device_driver *drv)
+{
+	/* Match always succeeds, we only have one driver */
+	return 1;
+}
+
+static int faux_probe(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct faux_object *faux_obj = to_faux_object(dev);
+	struct faux_device *faux_dev = &faux_obj->faux_dev;
+	const struct faux_device_ops *faux_ops = faux_obj->faux_ops;
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	if (faux_ops && faux_ops->probe)
+		ret = faux_ops->probe(faux_dev);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static void faux_remove(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct faux_object *faux_obj = to_faux_object(dev);
+	struct faux_device *faux_dev = &faux_obj->faux_dev;
+	const struct faux_device_ops *faux_ops = faux_obj->faux_ops;
+
+	if (faux_ops && faux_ops->remove)
+		faux_ops->remove(faux_dev);
+}
+
+static const struct bus_type faux_bus_type = {
+	.name		= "faux",
+	.match		= faux_match,
+	.probe		= faux_probe,
+	.remove		= faux_remove,
+};
+
+static struct device_driver faux_driver = {
+	.name		= "faux_driver",
+	.bus		= &faux_bus_type,
+	.probe_type	= PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS,
+};
+
+static void faux_device_release(struct device *dev)
+{
+	struct faux_object *faux_obj = to_faux_object(dev);
+
+	kfree(faux_obj);
+}
+
+/**
+ * faux_device_create_with_groups - Create and register with the driver
+ *		core a faux device and populate the device with an initial
+ *		set of sysfs attributes.
+ * @name:	The name of the device we are adding, must be unique for
+ *		all faux devices.
+ * @parent:	Pointer to a potential parent struct device.  If set to
+ *		NULL, the device will be created in the "root" of the faux
+ *		device tree in sysfs.
+ * @faux_ops:	struct faux_device_ops that the new device will call back
+ *		into, can be NULL.
+ * @groups:	The set of sysfs attributes that will be created for this
+ *		device when it is registered with the driver core.
+ *
+ * Create a new faux device and register it in the driver core properly.
+ * If present, callbacks in @faux_ops will be called with the device that
+ * for the caller to do something with at the proper time given the
+ * device's lifecycle.
+ *
+ * Note, when this function is called, the functions specified in struct
+ * faux_ops can be called before the function returns, so be prepared for
+ * everything to be properly initialized before that point in time.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * * NULL if an error happened with creating the device
+ * * pointer to a valid struct faux_device that is registered with sysfs
+ */
+struct faux_device *faux_device_create_with_groups(const char *name,
+						   struct device *parent,
+						   const struct faux_device_ops *faux_ops,
+						   const struct attribute_group **groups)
+{
+	struct faux_object *faux_obj;
+	struct faux_device *faux_dev;
+	struct device *dev;
+	int ret;
+
+	faux_obj = kzalloc(sizeof(*faux_obj), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!faux_obj)
+		return NULL;
+
+	/* Save off the callbacks so we can use them in the future */
+	faux_obj->faux_ops = faux_ops;
+
+	/* Initialize the device portion and register it with the driver core */
+	faux_dev = &faux_obj->faux_dev;
+	dev = &faux_dev->dev;
+
+	device_initialize(dev);
+	dev->release = faux_device_release;
+	if (parent)
+		dev->parent = parent;
+	else
+		dev->parent = &faux_bus_root;
+	dev->bus = &faux_bus_type;
+	dev->groups = groups;
+	dev_set_name(dev, "%s", name);
+
+	ret = device_add(dev);
+	if (ret) {
+		pr_err("%s: device_add for faux device '%s' failed with %d\n",
+		       __func__, name, ret);
+		put_device(dev);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	return faux_dev;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(faux_device_create_with_groups);
+
+/**
+ * faux_device_create - create and register with the driver core a faux device
+ * @name:	The name of the device we are adding, must be unique for all
+ *		faux devices.
+ * @parent:	Pointer to a potential parent struct device.  If set to
+ *		NULL, the device will be created in the "root" of the faux
+ *		device tree in sysfs.
+ * @faux_ops:	struct faux_device_ops that the new device will call back
+ *		into, can be NULL.
+ *
+ * Create a new faux device and register it in the driver core properly.
+ * If present, callbacks in @faux_ops will be called with the device that
+ * for the caller to do something with at the proper time given the
+ * device's lifecycle.
+ *
+ * Note, when this function is called, the functions specified in struct
+ * faux_ops can be called before the function returns, so be prepared for
+ * everything to be properly initialized before that point in time.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * * NULL if an error happened with creating the device
+ * * pointer to a valid struct faux_device that is registered with sysfs
+ */
+struct faux_device *faux_device_create(const char *name,
+				       struct device *parent,
+				       const struct faux_device_ops *faux_ops)
+{
+	return faux_device_create_with_groups(name, parent, faux_ops, NULL);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(faux_device_create);
+
+/**
+ * faux_device_destroy - destroy a faux device
+ * @faux_dev:	faux device to destroy
+ *
+ * Unregisters and cleans up a device that was created with a call to
+ * faux_device_create()
+ */
+void faux_device_destroy(struct faux_device *faux_dev)
+{
+	struct device *dev = &faux_dev->dev;
+
+	if (!faux_dev)
+		return;
+
+	device_del(dev);
+
+	/* The final put_device() will clean up the memory we allocated for this device. */
+	put_device(dev);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(faux_device_destroy);
+
+int __init faux_bus_init(void)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = device_register(&faux_bus_root);
+	if (ret) {
+		put_device(&faux_bus_root);
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	ret = bus_register(&faux_bus_type);
+	if (ret)
+		goto error_bus;
+
+	ret = driver_register(&faux_driver);
+	if (ret)
+		goto error_driver;
+
+	return ret;
+
+error_driver:
+	bus_unregister(&faux_bus_type);
+
+error_bus:
+	device_unregister(&faux_bus_root);
+	return ret;
+}
diff --git a/drivers/base/init.c b/drivers/base/init.c
index c4954835128cfedaef237fd356ce371115673b5d..9d2b06d65dfc6bf8759f6c232e2d3f753da139ac 100644
--- a/drivers/base/init.c
+++ b/drivers/base/init.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ void __init driver_init(void)
 	/* These are also core pieces, but must come after the
 	 * core core pieces.
 	 */
+	faux_bus_init();
 	of_core_init();
 	platform_bus_init();
 	auxiliary_bus_init();
diff --git a/include/linux/device/faux.h b/include/linux/device/faux.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9f43c0e46aa45bf492788adcdc081df5cc0c5fc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/device/faux.h
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 The Linux Foundation
+ *
+ * A "simple" faux bus that allows devices to be created and added
+ * automatically to it.  This is to be used whenever you need to create a
+ * device that is not associated with any "real" system resources, and do
+ * not want to have to deal with a bus/driver binding logic.  It is
+ * intended to be very simple, with only a create and a destroy function
+ * available.
+ */
+#ifndef _FAUX_DEVICE_H_
+#define _FAUX_DEVICE_H_
+
+#include <linux/container_of.h>
+#include <linux/device.h>
+
+/**
+ * struct faux_device - a "faux" device
+ * @dev:	internal struct device of the object
+ *
+ * A simple faux device that can be created/destroyed.  To be used when a
+ * driver only needs to have a device to "hang" something off.  This can be
+ * used for downloading firmware or other basic tasks.  Use this instead of
+ * a struct platform_device if the device has no resources assigned to
+ * it at all.
+ */
+struct faux_device {
+	struct device dev;
+};
+#define to_faux_device(x) container_of_const((x), struct faux_device, dev)
+
+/**
+ * struct faux_device_ops - a set of callbacks for a struct faux_device
+ * @probe:	called when a faux device is probed by the driver core
+ *		before the device is fully bound to the internal faux bus
+ *		code.  If probe succeeds, return 0, otherwise return a
+ *		negative error number to stop the probe sequence from
+ *		succeeding.
+ * @remove:	called when a faux device is removed from the system
+ *
+ * Both @probe and @remove are optional, if not needed, set to NULL.
+ */
+struct faux_device_ops {
+	int (*probe)(struct faux_device *faux_dev);
+	void (*remove)(struct faux_device *faux_dev);
+};
+
+struct faux_device *faux_device_create(const char *name,
+				       struct device *parent,
+				       const struct faux_device_ops *faux_ops);
+struct faux_device *faux_device_create_with_groups(const char *name,
+						   struct device *parent,
+						   const struct faux_device_ops *faux_ops,
+						   const struct attribute_group **groups);
+void faux_device_destroy(struct faux_device *faux_dev);
+
+static inline void *faux_device_get_drvdata(const struct faux_device *faux_dev)
+{
+	return dev_get_drvdata(&faux_dev->dev);
+}
+
+static inline void faux_device_set_drvdata(struct faux_device *faux_dev, void *data)
+{
+	dev_set_drvdata(&faux_dev->dev, data);
+}
+
+#endif /* _FAUX_DEVICE_H_ */
diff --git a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
index 55354e4dec14e9859ace33a6b0afb6d9a6653ea1..f46cf3bb70695b0e38ef27d5e630afe9d265f27b 100644
--- a/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
+++ b/rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <linux/blk_types.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/cred.h>
+#include <linux/device/faux.h>
 #include <linux/errname.h>
 #include <linux/ethtool.h>
 #include <linux/file.h>
diff --git a/rust/kernel/faux.rs b/rust/kernel/faux.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5acc0c02d451f6d5a26b837d509374d508f26368
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/kernel/faux.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+//! Abstractions for the faux bus.
+//!
+//! This module provides bindings for working with faux devices in kernel modules.
+//!
+//! C header: [`include/linux/device/faux.h`]
+
+use crate::{bindings, device, error::code::*, prelude::*};
+use core::ptr::{addr_of_mut, null, null_mut, NonNull};
+
+/// The registration of a faux device.
+///
+/// This type represents the registration of a [`struct faux_device`]. When an instance of this type
+/// is dropped, its respective faux device will be unregistered from the system.
+///
+/// # Invariants
+///
+/// `self.0` always holds a valid pointer to an initialized and registered [`struct faux_device`].
+///
+/// [`struct faux_device`]: srctree/include/linux/device/faux.h
+#[repr(transparent)]
+pub struct Registration(NonNull<bindings::faux_device>);
+
+impl Registration {
+    /// Create and register a new faux device with the given name.
+    pub fn new(name: &CStr) -> Result<Self> {
+        // SAFETY:
+        // - `name` is copied by this function into its own storage
+        // - `faux_ops` is safe to leave NULL according to the C API
+        let dev = unsafe { bindings::faux_device_create(name.as_char_ptr(), null_mut(), null()) };
+
+        // The above function will return either a valid device, or NULL on failure
+        // INVARIANT: The device will remain registered until faux_device_destroy() is called, which
+        // happens in our Drop implementation.
+        Ok(Self(NonNull::new(dev).ok_or(ENODEV)?))
+    }
+
+    fn as_raw(&self) -> *mut bindings::faux_device {
+        self.0.as_ptr()
+    }
+}
+
+impl AsRef<device::Device> for Registration {
+    fn as_ref(&self) -> &device::Device {
+        // SAFETY: The underlying `device` in `faux_device` is guaranteed by the C API to be
+        // a valid initialized `device`.
+        unsafe { device::Device::as_ref(addr_of_mut!((*self.as_raw()).dev)) }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Drop for Registration {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        // SAFETY: `self.0` is a valid registered faux_device via our type invariants.
+        unsafe { bindings::faux_device_destroy(self.as_raw()) }
+    }
+}
+
+// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe as guaranteed by the device core, as long as
+// faux_device_destroy() is guaranteed to only be called once - which is guaranteed by our type not
+// having Copy/Clone.
+unsafe impl Send for Registration {}
+
+// SAFETY: The faux device API is thread-safe as guaranteed by the device core, as long as
+// faux_device_destroy() is guaranteed to only be called once - which is guaranteed by our type not
+// having Copy/Clone.
+unsafe impl Sync for Registration {}
diff --git a/rust/kernel/lib.rs b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
index 496ed32b0911a9fdbce5d26738b9cf7ef910b269..398242f92a961c3a445d681c65449047a847968a 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/lib.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/lib.rs
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 pub mod devres;
 pub mod driver;
 pub mod error;
+pub mod faux;
 #[cfg(CONFIG_RUST_FW_LOADER_ABSTRACTIONS)]
 pub mod firmware;
 pub mod fs;
diff --git a/samples/rust/Kconfig b/samples/rust/Kconfig
index 918dbead2c0b4d2bda1aac0eff342b9e3654688d..3b6eae84b2977d7e33be6d65d278f5739f07672b 100644
--- a/samples/rust/Kconfig
+++ b/samples/rust/Kconfig
@@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ config SAMPLE_RUST_DRIVER_PLATFORM
 
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
+config SAMPLE_RUST_DRIVER_FAUX
+	tristate "Faux Driver"
+	help
+	  This option builds the Rust Faux driver sample.
+
+	  To compile this as a module, choose M here:
+	  the module will be called rust_driver_faux.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config SAMPLE_RUST_HOSTPROGS
 	bool "Host programs"
 	help
diff --git a/samples/rust/Makefile b/samples/rust/Makefile
index 5a8ab0df0567cb3f5acc92b7e927b61087c5834a..0dbc6d90f1ef9cd2a51c65666c6262abf417b276 100644
--- a/samples/rust/Makefile
+++ b/samples/rust/Makefile
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_RUST_MISC_DEVICE)		+= rust_misc_device.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_RUST_PRINT)			+= rust_print.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_RUST_DRIVER_PCI)		+= rust_driver_pci.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_RUST_DRIVER_PLATFORM)	+= rust_driver_platform.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_RUST_DRIVER_FAUX)		+= rust_driver_faux.o
 
 rust_print-y := rust_print_main.o rust_print_events.o
 
diff --git a/samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs b/samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..048c6cb98b29a14c7350aae8c4d602c79ce46924
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/rust/rust_driver_faux.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+//! Rust faux device sample.
+
+use kernel::{c_str, faux, prelude::*, Module};
+
+module! {
+    type: SampleModule,
+    name: "rust_faux_driver",
+    author: "Lyude Paul",
+    description: "Rust faux device sample",
+    license: "GPL",
+}
+
+struct SampleModule {
+    _reg: faux::Registration,
+}
+
+impl Module for SampleModule {
+    fn init(_module: &'static ThisModule) -> Result<Self> {
+        pr_info!("Initialising Rust Faux Device Sample\n");
+
+        let reg = faux::Registration::new(c_str!("rust-faux-sample-device"))?;
+
+        dev_info!(reg.as_ref(), "Hello from faux device!\n");
+
+        Ok(Self { _reg: reg })
+    }
+}