"ARJUNA016082: Synchronizations are not allowed" when using Infinispan for Hibernate level 2 caching in JBoss EAP 6

Issue

Encountering the failure below during transaction commit

... javax.transaction.RollbackException: ARJUNA016053: Could not commit transaction.
    at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.TransactionImple.commitAndDisassociate(TransactionImple.java:1223)
    at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.BaseTransaction.commit(BaseTransaction.java:126)
    at com.arjuna.ats.jbossatx.BaseTransactionManagerDelegate.commit(BaseTransactionManagerDelegate.java:75)
    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.tx.CMTTxInterceptor.endTransaction(CMTTxInterceptor.java:91)
    ...
Caused by: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: error during managed flush
    at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl$CallbackExceptionMapperImpl.mapManagedFlushFailure(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:1515)
    at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.synchronization.internal.SynchronizationCallbackCoordinatorNonTrackingImpl.beforeCompletion(SynchronizationCallbackCoordinatorNonTrackingImpl.java:114)
    at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.synchronization.internal.RegisteredSynchronization.beforeCompletion(RegisteredSynchronization.java:53)
    at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.resources.arjunacore.SynchronizationImple.beforeCompletion(SynchronizationImple.java:76)
    at com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.TwoPhaseCoordinator.beforeCompletion(TwoPhaseCoordinator.java:273)
    at com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.TwoPhaseCoordinator.end(TwoPhaseCoordinator.java:93)
    at com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.AtomicAction.commit(AtomicAction.java:162)
    at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.TransactionImple.commitAndDisassociate(TransactionImple.java:1211)
    ...
Caused by: org.infinispan.CacheException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: ARJUNA016082: Synchronizations are not allowed! Transaction status isActionStatus.RUNNING
    at org.infinispan.transaction.TransactionTable.enlist(TransactionTable.java:211)
    at org.infinispan.interceptors.TxInterceptor.enlist(TxInterceptor.java:280)
    at org.infinispan.interceptors.TxInterceptor.enlistWriteAndInvokeNext(TxInterceptor.java:247)
    at org.infinispan.interceptors.TxInterceptor.visitPutKeyValueCommand(TxInterceptor.java:193)
    at org.infinispan.commands.write.PutKeyValueCommand.acceptVisitor(PutKeyValueCommand.java:82)
    at org.infinispan.interceptors.base.CommandInterceptor.invokeNextInterceptor(CommandInterceptor.java:120)
    at org.infinispan.interceptors.InvocationContextInterceptor.handleAll(InvocationContextInterceptor.java:128)
    at org.infinispan.interceptors.InvocationContextInterceptor.handleDefault(InvocationContextInterceptor.java:92)
    at org.infinispan.commands.AbstractVisitor.visitPutKeyValueCommand(AbstractVisitor.java:62)
    at org.infinispan.commands.write.PutKeyValueCommand.acceptVisitor(PutKeyValueCommand.java:82)
    at org.infinispan.interceptors.InterceptorChain.invoke(InterceptorChain.java:343)
    at org.infinispan.CacheImpl.executeCommandAndCommitIfNeeded(CacheImpl.java:1186)
    at org.infinispan.CacheImpl.putInternal(CacheImpl.java:783)
    at org.infinispan.CacheImpl.put(CacheImpl.java:777)
        ...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: ARJUNA016082: Synchronizations are not allowed! Transaction status isActionStatus.RUNNING
    at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.TransactionImple.registerSynchronizationImple(TransactionImple.java:406)
    at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.TransactionImple.registerSynchronization(TransactionImple.java:383)
    at org.infinispan.transaction.TransactionTable.enlist(TransactionTable.java:208)
    ...