Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Le 2026-02-12 16:31, Vincent Blut a écrit : > Hi Salvatore, > > Le 2026-02-12 16:14, Salvatore Bonaccorso a écrit : > > Control: affects -1 - chrony > > Control: reassign -1 src:chrony 4.6.1-3 > > Control: found -1 4.3-2+deb12u1 > > Control: found -1 4.3-2 > > Control: fixed -1 4.8-1 > > Control: tags -1 + upstream fixed-upstream bookworm trixie > > > > Hi Jan, > > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 11:40:12AM +0100, Jan Luebbe wrote: > > > Package: src:linux > > > Version: 6.12.69-1 > > > Severity: important > > > Tags: upstream > > > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > > > I've just debugged a new issue with 6.12.69+deb13 vs. 6.12.63+deb13. > > > chrony 4.6.1 (the version in Debian stable) started failing to start > > > with "Fatal error : Could not enable external PHC timestamping". > > > > > > We use the extpps mode with PTP hardware clocks. It seems that > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=97529630d85f910f4e6dfc615f1d111ada9448e3 > > > changes /dev/ptp* to now require FDs open for writing to configure > > > extpps. Chrony has a fix > > > (https://gitlab.com/chrony/chrony/-/commit/f78e4681eff71d941fab3be5ee406d920a155a20), > > > but that's only in the version in testing/sid. > > > > We talked about this bug on yesterdays team meeting, and it was > > commented as the kernel change is a security fix, it likely won't be > > reverted and the fix should be backported for chrony to the affected > > releases and schedule fixes via the point releases (with ideally the > > option to make an update as well make it as a SUA to get earlier to > > users affected by the issue). > > Fair! > > > Would you be willing to work on those backports and propose the point > > release updates? > > I will handle this. I will provide a build for Jan to test because I do > not have that kind of setup at hand.
Jan, could you please test the attached .deb? It includes a backport of the aforementioned chrony fix and some adjustments to the test suite. Cheers, Vincent P.S. sha256sum: b6f253e4429c0efe56429f4a8d9a109897863fa3a83099599bf236ff10bbe253 chrony_4.6.1-3+deb13u1_amd64.deb
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