diff --git a/meta-filesystems/recipes-utils/overlayfs/overlayfs-tools_2025.01.bb b/meta-filesystems/recipes-utils/overlayfs/overlayfs-tools_2025.01.bb
index 8583a0e2cb..3b5963bb26 100644
--- a/meta-filesystems/recipes-utils/overlayfs/overlayfs-tools_2025.01.bb
+++ b/meta-filesystems/recipes-utils/overlayfs/overlayfs-tools_2025.01.bb
@@ -14,3 +14,7 @@ UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = "v(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"
 inherit meson pkgconfig
 
 DEPENDS:append:libc-musl = " fts"
+
+do_configure:prepend() {
+	sed -i '/Custom targets for testing overlay function/,/command : .*permanent...changes/ d' ${S}/meson.build
+}