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Weston segfaults on startup if wl_event_loop_add_timer fails

Submitted by hob..@..ex.com

Assigned to Wayland bug list

Link to original bug (#106129)

Description

Running weston with the headless backend will segfault if wl_event_loop_add_timer fails (eg if timerfd is not enabled in the kernel) since https://github.com/wayland-project/weston/blob/42c0e14808bfd39e1a2eea34f43f0b5fe20fbb16/libweston/compositor-headless.c#L160 never checks if the returned result is NULL.

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