diff --git a/src/relay/transforms/fold_constant.cc b/src/relay/transforms/fold_constant.cc
index a078cabda3f67..c1bbbb331139a 100644
--- a/src/relay/transforms/fold_constant.cc
+++ b/src/relay/transforms/fold_constant.cc
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <tvm/relay/analysis.h>
 #include <tvm/relay/attrs/annotation.h>
 #include <tvm/relay/attrs/transform.h>
+#include <tvm/relay/executor.h>
 #include <tvm/relay/expr_functor.h>
 #include <tvm/relay/interpreter.h>
 #include <tvm/relay/op.h>
@@ -254,8 +255,13 @@ class ConstantFolder : public MixedModeMutator {
     // needed for both execution and creation(due to JIT)
     With<transform::PassContext> fresh_build_ctx(transform::PassContext::Create());
 
-    Map<String, ObjectRef> dict =
-        (module_->attrs.defined()) ? module_->attrs->dict : Map<String, ObjectRef>();
+    Map<String, ObjectRef> dict = (module_->attrs.defined())
+                                      ? Map<String, ObjectRef>(module_->attrs.CopyOnWrite()->dict)
+                                      : Map<String, ObjectRef>();
+
+    // always use graph executor with no link-params
+    dict.Set(tvm::attr::kExecutor,
+             relay::Executor::Create("graph", {{"link-params", Bool(false)}}));
     Expr result = ObjectToExpr(Eval(expr, module_->type_definitions, module_->Imports(),
                                     eval_cpu_dev_, eval_cpu_target_, dict));
     VLOG(1) << "Evaluated to constant:" << std::endl << PrettyPrint(result);
diff --git a/tests/python/relay/test_pass_fold_constant.py b/tests/python/relay/test_pass_fold_constant.py
index c165d140b1a68..298c4f177fd1b 100644
--- a/tests/python/relay/test_pass_fold_constant.py
+++ b/tests/python/relay/test_pass_fold_constant.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 import numpy as np
 import tvm
 from tvm import relay
+from tvm.relay.backend import Executor
 from tvm.relay import transform
 from tvm.relay.build_module import bind_params_by_name
 from tvm.relay.testing import run_infer_type, create_workload
@@ -369,6 +370,24 @@ def before():
     tvm.ir.assert_structural_equal(run_infer_type(before_mod["main"]), after_mod["main"])
 
 
+def test_pass_link_params():
+    """
+    This test checks ensures that proper executor is passed to interpreter instance
+    The test will fail if FoldConstant does not override the executor due to "int8"
+    is not supported in ScheduleBuilder
+    """
+
+    def expr():
+        z = relay.const(10, dtype="int8")
+        return relay.cast(z, dtype="int32")
+
+    mod = tvm.IRModule.from_expr(expr())
+    mod = tvm.relay.transform.InferType()(mod)
+    # Add executor with link-params
+    mod = mod.with_attr("executor", Executor("aot", {"link-params": True}))
+    mod = tvm.relay.transform.FoldConstant()(mod)
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     import sys
     import pytest