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gcc: disable '-Warray-bounds' for gcc-13 too

We started disabling '-Warray-bounds' for gcc-12 originally on s390,
because it resulted in some warnings that weren't realistically fixable
(commit 8b202ee21839: "s390: disable -Warray-bounds").

That s390-specific issue was then found to be less common elsewhere, but
generic (see f0be87c42cbd: "gcc-12: disable '-Warray-bounds' universally
for now"), and then later expanded the version check was expanded to
gcc-11 (5a41237ad1d4: "gcc: disable -Warray-bounds for gcc-11 too").

And it turns out that I was much too optimistic in thinking that it's
all going to go away, and here we are with gcc-13 showing all the same
issues. So instead of expanding this one version at a time, let's just
disable it for gcc-11+, and put an end limit to it only when we actually
find a solution.

Yes, I'm sure some of this is because the kernel just does odd things
(like our "container_of()" use, but also knowingly playing games with
things like linker tables and array layouts).

And yes, some of the warnings are likely signs of real bugs, but when
there are hundreds of false positives, that doesn't really help.

Oh well.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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init/Kconfig
··· 890 890 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5" if CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5) 891 891 default "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" if CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-Wunreachable-code-fallthrough) 892 892 893 - # Currently, disable gcc-11,12 array-bounds globally. 894 - # We may want to target only particular configurations some day. 893 + # Currently, disable gcc-11+ array-bounds globally. 894 + # It's still broken in gcc-13, so no upper bound yet. 895 895 config GCC11_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 896 - def_bool y 897 - 898 - config GCC12_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 899 896 def_bool y 900 897 901 898 config CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 902 899 bool 903 - default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 110000 && GCC_VERSION < 120000 && GCC11_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 904 - default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 120000 && GCC_VERSION < 130000 && GCC12_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 900 + default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 110000 && GCC11_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS 905 901 906 902 # 907 903 # For architectures that know their GCC __int128 support is sound