diff --git a/girs/Gst-1.0.gir b/girs/Gst-1.0.gir
index 054b9b6ec3..4034125c3b 100644
--- a/girs/Gst-1.0.gir
+++ b/girs/Gst-1.0.gir
@@ -30985,7 +30985,10 @@ of the peer sink pad, if present.</doc>
         </parameters>
       </method>
       <method name="set_offset" c:identifier="gst_pad_set_offset">
-        <doc xml:space="preserve" filename="../subprojects/gstreamer/gst/gstpad.c">Set the offset that will be applied to the running time of @pad.</doc>
+        <doc xml:space="preserve" filename="../subprojects/gstreamer/gst/gstpad.c">Set the offset that will be applied to the running time of @pad. Upon next
+buffer, every sticky events (notably segment) will be pushed again with
+their running time adjusted. For that reason this is only reliable on
+source pads.</doc>
         <source-position filename="../subprojects/gstreamer/gst/gstpad.h"/>
         <return-value transfer-ownership="none">
           <type name="none" c:type="void"/>
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer/gst/gstpad.c b/subprojects/gstreamer/gst/gstpad.c
index 798b3616b8..6aee9fc87b 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer/gst/gstpad.c
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer/gst/gstpad.c
@@ -4014,13 +4014,24 @@ mark_event_not_received (GstPad * pad, PadEvent * ev, gpointer user_data)
  * @pad: a #GstPad
  * @offset: the offset
  *
- * Set the offset that will be applied to the running time of @pad.
+ * Set the offset that will be applied to the running time of @pad. Upon next
+ * buffer, every sticky events (notably segment) will be pushed again with
+ * their running time adjusted. For that reason this is only reliable on
+ * source pads.
  */
 void
 gst_pad_set_offset (GstPad * pad, gint64 offset)
 {
   g_return_if_fail (GST_IS_PAD (pad));
 
+  /* Setting pad offset on a sink pad does not work reliably:
+   * https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/6464 */
+  if (GST_PAD_IS_SINK (pad)) {
+    /* Make it non fatal warning for backward compatibility. */
+    GST_WARNING_OBJECT (pad,
+        "Setting pad offset only works reliably on source pads");
+  }
+
   GST_OBJECT_LOCK (pad);
   /* if nothing changed, do nothing */
   if (pad->offset == offset)