[   13.417651] msr: Write to unrecognized MSR 0x17f by rasdaemon (pid: 1056), tainting CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC.
[   13.417656] msr: See https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/about for details.

I see the above kernel message logs on this system. It is a HP Z640 with a
E5-2696 v3 CPU.  Below is the relevant section of the URL that the kernel
gives.  Is this a regression in 7.1.6?  I don't know if other kernels had the
same issue as I wasn't tracking it before.

0x17f						mcelog

Fix is in v5.11:

68299a42f842 ("x86/mce: Enable additional error logging on certain Intel CPUs")