diff --git a/pkg/chunkenc/memchunk_test.go b/pkg/chunkenc/memchunk_test.go
index 73cdd46f5be3..459f51354b2a 100644
--- a/pkg/chunkenc/memchunk_test.go
+++ b/pkg/chunkenc/memchunk_test.go
@@ -814,11 +814,11 @@ func BenchmarkBufferedIteratorLabels(b *testing.B) {
 		},
 	}
 	for _, test := range []string{
-		// `{app="foo"}`,
+		`{app="foo"}`,
 		`{app="foo"} != "foo"`,
-		// `{app="foo"} != "foo" | logfmt `,
-		// `{app="foo"} != "foo" | logfmt | duration > 10ms`,
-		// `{app="foo"} != "foo" | logfmt | duration > 10ms and component="tsdb"`,
+		`{app="foo"} != "foo" | logfmt `,
+		`{app="foo"} != "foo" | logfmt | duration > 10ms`,
+		`{app="foo"} != "foo" | logfmt | duration > 10ms and component="tsdb"`,
 	} {
 		b.Run(test, func(b *testing.B) {
 			b.ReportAllocs()
@@ -851,13 +851,13 @@ func BenchmarkBufferedIteratorLabels(b *testing.B) {
 	}
 
 	for _, test := range []string{
-		// `rate({app="foo"}[1m])`,
-		// `sum by (cluster) (rate({app="foo"}[10s]))`,
-		// `sum by (cluster) (rate({app="foo"} != "foo" [10s]))`,
-		// `sum by (cluster) (rate({app="foo"} != "foo" | logfmt[10s]))`,
-		// `sum by (caller) (rate({app="foo"} != "foo" | logfmt[10s]))`,
-		// `sum by (cluster) (rate({app="foo"} != "foo" | logfmt | duration > 10ms[10s]))`,
-		// `sum by (cluster) (rate({app="foo"} != "foo" | logfmt | duration > 10ms and component="tsdb"[1m]))`,
+		`rate({app="foo"}[1m])`,
+		`sum by (cluster) (rate({app="foo"}[10s]))`,
+		`sum by (cluster) (rate({app="foo"} != "foo" [10s]))`,
+		`sum by (cluster) (rate({app="foo"} != "foo" | logfmt[10s]))`,
+		`sum by (caller) (rate({app="foo"} != "foo" | logfmt[10s]))`,
+		`sum by (cluster) (rate({app="foo"} != "foo" | logfmt | duration > 10ms[10s]))`,
+		`sum by (cluster) (rate({app="foo"} != "foo" | logfmt | duration > 10ms and component="tsdb"[1m]))`,
 	} {
 		b.Run(test, func(b *testing.B) {
 			b.ReportAllocs()
diff --git a/pkg/logql/log/labels.go b/pkg/logql/log/labels.go
index 03bdbf9f272f..24283a36c914 100644
--- a/pkg/logql/log/labels.go
+++ b/pkg/logql/log/labels.go
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ func (h *hasher) Hash(lbs labels.Labels) uint64 {
 type BaseLabelsBuilder struct {
 	del []string
 	add []labels.Label
+	// nolint(structcheck) https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/issues/826
 	err string
 
 	groups            []string
@@ -238,40 +239,10 @@ Outer:
 // No grouping is applied and the cache is used when possible.
 func (b *LabelsBuilder) LabelsResult() LabelsResult {
 	// unchanged path.
-	if len(b.del) == 0 && len(b.add) == 0 {
-		if b.err == "" {
-			return b.currentResult
-		}
-		// unchanged but with error.
-		res := append(b.base.Copy(), labels.Label{Name: ErrorLabel, Value: b.err})
-		sort.Sort(res)
-		return b.toResult(res)
-	}
-
-	// In the general case, labels are removed, modified or moved
-	// rather than added.
-	res := make(labels.Labels, 0, len(b.base)+len(b.add))
-Outer:
-	for _, l := range b.base {
-		for _, n := range b.del {
-			if l.Name == n {
-				continue Outer
-			}
-		}
-		for _, la := range b.add {
-			if l.Name == la.Name {
-				continue Outer
-			}
-		}
-		res = append(res, l)
+	if len(b.del) == 0 && len(b.add) == 0 && b.err == "" {
+		return b.currentResult
 	}
-	res = append(res, b.add...)
-	if b.err != "" {
-		res = append(res, labels.Label{Name: ErrorLabel, Value: b.err})
-	}
-	sort.Sort(res)
-
-	return b.toResult(res)
+	return b.toResult(b.Labels())
 }
 
 func (b *BaseLabelsBuilder) toResult(lbs labels.Labels) LabelsResult {