diff --git a/lld/test/wasm/undefined-data.ll b/lld/test/wasm/undefined-data.ll
--- a/lld/test/wasm/undefined-data.ll
+++ b/lld/test/wasm/undefined-data.ll
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ; RUN: llc -filetype=obj %s -o %t.o
 ; RUN: not wasm-ld -o %t.wasm %t.o 2>&1 | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=UNDEF
-; RUN: not wasm-ld --allow-undefined -o %t.wasm %t.o 2>&1 | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=UNDEF
+; RUN: wasm-ld --allow-undefined -o %t.wasm %t.o
 ; RUN: not wasm-ld --shared -o %t.wasm %t.o 2>&1 | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=SHARED
 
 target triple = "wasm32-unknown-unknown"
diff --git a/lld/wasm/Relocations.cpp b/lld/wasm/Relocations.cpp
--- a/lld/wasm/Relocations.cpp
+++ b/lld/wasm/Relocations.cpp
@@ -21,13 +21,6 @@
 }
 
 static bool allowUndefined(const Symbol* sym) {
-  // Historically --allow-undefined doesn't work for data symbols since we don't
-  // have any way to represent these as imports in the final binary.  The idea
-  // behind allowing undefined symbols is to allow importing these symbols from
-  // the embedder and we can't do this for data symbols (at least not without
-  // compiling with -fPIC)
-  if (isa<DataSymbol>(sym))
-    return false;
   // Undefined functions with explicit import name are allowed to be undefined
   // at link time.
   if (auto *F = dyn_cast<UndefinedFunction>(sym))