posix-timers: Report zero remaining time for disarmed SIGEV_NONE timers

SIGEV_NONE timers are never queued. common_timer_get() emulates their
expiry by computing the remaining time from the stored expiry value.
Because an armed SIGEV_NONE oneshot timer is not queued, its it_status
stays POSIX_TIMER_DISARMED. So common_timer_get() cannot use it_status to
skip a disarmed SIGEV_NONE timer and evaluates the stored expiry value for
all SIGEV_NONE timers.

Disarming a timer with timer_settime() and a zero it_value cancels the
timer and sets it_status to POSIX_TIMER_DISARMED, but leaves the expiry
value unchanged. As a consequence, timer_gettime() on a disarmed SIGEV_NONE
timer reports the remaining time of the previous arming until that time has
passed, instead of zero as POSIX requires for a disarmed timer. Example
with a CLOCK_MONOTONIC timer armed with it_value = 10ms and it_interval =
100ms, then disarmed with an all-zero itimerspec:

  armed:    it_value = 0.009999000  it_interval = 0.100000000
  disarmed: it_value = 0.008700792  it_interval = 0.000000000

SIGEV_SIGNAL timers and SIGEV_NONE CPU timers report zero in the same
situation. All clocks which use common_timer_get() are affected, including
the alarm timer clocks.

Mark SIGEV_NONE timers as POSIX_TIMER_ARMED when they are armed, so that
common_timer_get() returns early for every disarmed timer. Forward
SIGEV_NONE interval timers in common_timer_get() regardless of it_status,
as they are never queued and therefore never forwarded by the expiry code.

After the change the disarmed timer above reports zero. Armed SIGEV_NONE
oneshot and interval timers on CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_REALTIME,
CLOCK_BOOTTIME and CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM still report their remaining time,
and the posix_timers selftest passes.

Fixes: becf8b5d00f4 ("[PATCH] hrtimer: convert posix timers completely")
Signed-off-by: Hung-Jui Lin <alex.lin.programmer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261023151411.28685-1-alex.lin.programmer@gmail.com

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