diff --git a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/data.go b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/data.go
index 13ccb86a0355d..e29b6e8e3bd2e 100644
--- a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/data.go
+++ b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/data.go
@@ -1730,7 +1730,7 @@ func (state *dodataState) allocateDataSections2(ctxt *Link) {
 	ldr.SetSymSect(ldr.LookupOrCreateSym("runtime.end", 0), sect)
 
 	// Coverage instrumentation counters for libfuzzer.
-	if len(state.data[sym.SLIBFUZZER_EXTRA_COUNTER]) > 0 {
+	if len(state.data2[sym.SLIBFUZZER_EXTRA_COUNTER]) > 0 {
 		state.allocateNamedSectionAndAssignSyms2(&Segdata, "__libfuzzer_extra_counters", sym.SLIBFUZZER_EXTRA_COUNTER, sym.Sxxx, 06)
 	}