diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index ffce2ddf38e..afa55f1bed0 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -85,3 +85,6 @@
 [submodule "src/skia"]
 	path = src/skia
 	url = git://github.com/mozilla-servo/skia.git
+[submodule "src/rust"]
+	path = src/rust
+	url = git://github.com/mozilla/rust.git
diff --git a/src/rust b/src/rust
new file mode 160000
index 00000000000..09bb07bed91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/rust
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 09bb07bed9166105ea961a42b5fff7739ae0d2e9