diff --git a/src/cmd/compile/internal/reflectdata/reflect.go b/src/cmd/compile/internal/reflectdata/reflect.go
index 83d66eab42..cfdf2af849 100644
--- a/src/cmd/compile/internal/reflectdata/reflect.go
+++ b/src/cmd/compile/internal/reflectdata/reflect.go
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ import (
 	"cmd/compile/internal/inline"
 	"cmd/compile/internal/ir"
 	"cmd/compile/internal/objw"
-	"cmd/compile/internal/staticdata"
 	"cmd/compile/internal/typebits"
 	"cmd/compile/internal/typecheck"
 	"cmd/compile/internal/types"
@@ -2057,8 +2056,15 @@ func MarkUsedIfaceMethod(n *ir.CallExpr) {
 		// of the method for matching.
 		r := obj.Addrel(ir.CurFunc.LSym)
 		// We use a separate symbol just to tell the linker the method name.
-		// (The symbol itself is not needed in the final binary.)
-		r.Sym = staticdata.StringSym(src.NoXPos, dot.Sel.Name)
+		// (The symbol itself is not needed in the final binary. Do not use
+		// staticdata.StringSym, which creates a content addessable symbol,
+		// which may have trailing zero bytes. This symbol doesn't need to
+		// be deduplicated anyway.)
+		name := dot.Sel.Name
+		var nameSym obj.LSym
+		nameSym.WriteString(base.Ctxt, 0, len(name), name)
+		objw.Global(&nameSym, int32(len(name)), obj.RODATA)
+		r.Sym = &nameSym
 		r.Type = objabi.R_USEGENERICIFACEMETHOD
 		return
 	}