US Patent 11995178 Protection of kernel from code reuse attacks

Protection of a kernel from a sniff and code reuse attack. A kernel mode page table in initialized in a kernel. The kernel page entries in the kernel mode page table are set from s-pages to u-pages. Supervisor mode access prevention is enabled in the u-pages. Code contained in the kernel page entries in the u-pages is executed, the kernel page entries in the u-pages are capable of execution but are not capable of being accessed and read directly.