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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2024, Ideas on Board Oy
+ *
+ * timer-fail.cpp - Threaded timer failure test
+ */
+
+#include <chrono>
+#include <iostream>
+
+#include <libcamera/base/event_dispatcher.h>
+#include <libcamera/base/object.h>
+#include <libcamera/base/thread.h>
+#include <libcamera/base/timer.h>
+
+#include "test.h"
+
+using namespace libcamera;
+using namespace std;
+using namespace std::chrono_literals;
+
+class TimeoutHandler : public Object
+{
+public:
+	TimeoutHandler()
+		: timer_(this), timeout_(false)
+	{
+		timer_.timeout.connect(this, &TimeoutHandler::timeoutHandler);
+	}
+
+	void start()
+	{
+		timer_.start(100ms);
+	}
+
+	bool timeout() const
+	{
+		return timeout_;
+	}
+
+private:
+	void timeoutHandler()
+	{
+		timeout_ = true;
+	}
+
+	Timer timer_;
+	bool timeout_;
+};
+
+class TimerFailTest : public Test
+{
+protected:
+	int init()
+	{
+		thread_.start();
+
+		timeout_ = new TimeoutHandler();
+		timeout_->moveToThread(&thread_);
+
+		return TestPass;
+	}
+
+	int run()
+	{
+		/*
+		 * Test that the forbidden operation of starting the timer from
+		 * another thread results in a failure. We need to interrupt the
+		 * event dispatcher to make sure we don't succeed simply because
+		 * the event dispatcher hasn't noticed the timer restart.
+		 */
+		timeout_->start();
+		thread_.eventDispatcher()->interrupt();
+
+		this_thread::sleep_for(chrono::milliseconds(200));
+
+		/*
+		 * The wrong start() call should result in an assertion in debug
+		 * builds, and a timeout in release builds. The test is
+		 * therefore marked in meson.build as expected to fail. We need
+		 * to return TestPass in the unexpected (usually known as
+		 * "fail") case, and TestFail otherwise.
+		 */
+		if (timeout_->timeout()) {
+			cout << "Timer start from wrong thread succeeded unexpectedly"
+			     << endl;
+			return TestPass;
+		}
+
+		return TestFail;
+	}
+
+	void cleanup()
+	{
+		/*
+		 * Object class instances must be destroyed from the thread
+		 * they live in.
+		 */
+		timeout_->deleteLater();
+		thread_.exit(0);
+		thread_.wait();
+	}
+
+private:
+	TimeoutHandler *timeout_;
+	Thread thread_;
+};
+
+TEST_REGISTER(TimerFailTest)