I can reproduce this problem on a fresh machine set-up at AWS (kernel Linux ip-172-31-6-51 3.19.0-26-generic #28~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 12 14:09:17 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux).
Below the output of the script reproduction script linked above:
I can reproduce this problem on a fresh machine set-up at AWS (kernel Linux ip-172-31-6-51 3.19.0-26-generic #28~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 12 14:09:17 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux).
Below the output of the script reproduction script linked above:
```
mounted overlayfs
ls -RF mntpt
-------------
mntpt:
foo/
mntpt/foo:
bar.txt
rm -r mntpt/*
-------------
rm: cannot remove ‘mntpt/foo’: Operation not permitted
exit code=1
ls -RF mntpt
-------------
mntpt:
foo/
mntpt/foo:
unmounted overlayfs
cleaning up
```