versionbits: Add explicit NEVER_ACTIVE deployments

Previously we used deployments that would timeout prior to Bitcoin's
invention, which allowed the deployment to still be activated in unit
tests. This switches those deployments to be truly never active.

Github-Pull: #21377
Rebased-From: 55ac5f568a3b73d6f1ef4654617fb76e8bcbccdf

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/versionbits.cpp b/src/versionbits.cpp
index 11da729596..df666c963f 100644
--- a/src/versionbits.cpp
+++ b/src/versionbits.cpp
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ ThresholdState AbstractThresholdConditionChecker::GetStateFor(const CBlockIndex*
         return ThresholdState::ACTIVE;
     }
 
+    // Check if this deployment is never active.
+    if (nTimeStart == Consensus::BIP9Deployment::NEVER_ACTIVE) {
+        return ThresholdState::FAILED;
+    }
+
     // A block's state is always the same as that of the first of its period, so it is computed based on a pindexPrev whose height equals a multiple of nPeriod - 1.
     if (pindexPrev != nullptr) {
         pindexPrev = pindexPrev->GetAncestor(pindexPrev->nHeight - ((pindexPrev->nHeight + 1) % nPeriod));
@@ -129,7 +134,7 @@ BIP9Stats AbstractThresholdConditionChecker::GetStateStatisticsFor(const CBlockI
 int AbstractThresholdConditionChecker::GetStateSinceHeightFor(const CBlockIndex* pindexPrev, const Consensus::Params& params, ThresholdConditionCache& cache) const
 {
     int64_t start_time = BeginTime(params);
-    if (start_time == Consensus::BIP9Deployment::ALWAYS_ACTIVE) {
+    if (start_time == Consensus::BIP9Deployment::ALWAYS_ACTIVE || start_time == Consensus::BIP9Deployment::NEVER_ACTIVE) {
         return 0;
     }