No I think it's because kernel lockdown:
commit 708822cdbcd3faab40e83a79b71617e1812a1b06
Author: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Feb 18 12:44:59 2019 +0000

    UBUNTU: SAUCE: (efi-lockdown) x86/msr: Restrict MSR access when the kernel 
is locked down
    
    Writing to MSRs should not be allowed if the kernel is locked down, since
    it could lead to execution of arbitrary code in kernel mode.  Based on a
    patch by Kees Cook.
    
    MSR accesses are logged for the purposes of building up a whitelist as per
    Alan Cox's suggestion.
    
    Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
    Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
    Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
    Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
    cc: [email protected]
    Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
    (cherry picked from commit 323bd1cb92e03558ae3f3a11dd683dcbb23eeaea
     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwboyer/fedora.git)
    Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <[email protected]>

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  kernel 5.2 disallows thermald's direct MSR writes

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in thermald package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  thermald/kernel are spamming dmesg now because MSR write is
  disallowed.

  
  jak@jak-t480s:~:master$ journalctl -b --since=today | grep msr | wc -l
  8688
  jak@jak-t480s:~:master$ journalctl -b --since=today | grep msr | tail
  Aug 16 14:48:57 jak-t480s thermald[11327]: [WARN]sysfs write failed 
/dev/cpu/0/msr
  Aug 16 14:48:57 jak-t480s kernel: msr: Direct access to MSR 1a2
  Aug 16 14:49:05 jak-t480s thermald[11327]: [WARN]sysfs write failed 
/dev/cpu/0/msr
  Aug 16 14:49:05 jak-t480s kernel: msr: Direct access to MSR 1a2
  Aug 16 14:49:13 jak-t480s thermald[11327]: [WARN]sysfs write failed 
/dev/cpu/0/msr
  Aug 16 14:49:13 jak-t480s kernel: msr: Direct access to MSR 1a2
  Aug 16 14:49:21 jak-t480s thermald[11327]: [WARN]sysfs write failed 
/dev/cpu/0/msr
  Aug 16 14:49:21 jak-t480s kernel: msr: Direct access to MSR 1a2
  Aug 16 14:50:03 jak-t480s kernel: msr: Direct access to MSR 1a2
  Aug 16 14:50:03 jak-t480s thermald[11327]: [WARN]sysfs write failed 
/dev/cpu/0/msr

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