diff --git a/src/libANGLE/renderer/d3d/d3d11/Blit11.cpp b/src/libANGLE/renderer/d3d/d3d11/Blit11.cpp
index 98bf6b2931..30b689ef9b 100644
--- a/src/libANGLE/renderer/d3d/d3d11/Blit11.cpp
+++ b/src/libANGLE/renderer/d3d/d3d11/Blit11.cpp
@@ -1783,6 +1783,19 @@ angle::Result Blit11::initResolveDepthOnly(const gl::Context *context,
     dsvDesc.Texture2D.MipSlice = 0;
     dsvDesc.ViewDimension      = D3D11_DSV_DIMENSION_TEXTURE2D;
 
+    // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+    // FAULT INJECTION (POC ONLY — do not land):
+    // Deterministically reproduce the partial-allocation desync by forcing
+    // CreateDepthStencilView to "fail" with E_OUTOFMEMORY on the *second*
+    // cache-miss invocation (i.e. after CreateTexture2D has already
+    // overwritten mResolvedDepth with the new-extents texture).
+    // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+    static int sInitResolveDepthOnlyCalls = 0;
+    if (++sInitResolveDepthOnlyCalls == 2)
+    {
+        ANGLE_TRY_HR(context11, E_OUTOFMEMORY,
+                     "POC fault-inject: simulated CreateDepthStencilView OOM");
+    }
     ANGLE_TRY(mRenderer->allocateResource(context11, dsvDesc, mResolvedDepth.get(),
                                           &mResolvedDepthDSView));
     mResolvedDepthDSView.setInternalName("Blit11::mResolvedDepthDSView");