Hello Paolo Bonzini, The patch e71ae535bc24: "KVM: x86: avoid incorrect writes to host MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL" from Jan 20, 2020, leads to the following static checker warning: arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:2001 vmx_set_msr() warn: maybe use && instead of & arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c 1994 vmx->msr_ia32_umwait_control = data; 1995 break; 1996 case MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL: 1997 if (!msr_info->host_initiated && 1998 !guest_cpuid_has(vcpu, X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL)) 1999 return 1; 2000 2001 if (data & ~kvm_spec_ctrl_valid_bits(vcpu)) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This seems wrong. kvm_spec_ctrl_valid_bits() returns a bool so this is either 0xffffffff or 0xfffffffe. data is a u64. 2002 return 1; 2003 2004 vmx->spec_ctrl = data; 2005 if (!data) 2006 break; 2007 2008 /* 2009 * For non-nested: regards, dan carpenter