You can potentially trigger with just
perf stat -a -I 10
[ 737.542476] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 9406 at kernel/events/core.c:3554 perf_event_read+0x173/0x180
[ 737.628175] CPU: 1 PID: 9406 Comm: perf_fuzzer Tainted: G W 4.8.0-rc3+ #190
[ 737.637224] Hardware name: LENOVO 10AM000AUS/SHARKBAY, BIOS FBKT72AUS 01/26/2014
[ 737.645585] 0000000000000000 ffff88011943bd30 ffffffff8143a3d1 0000000000000000
[ 737.654033] 0000000000000000 ffff88011943bd70 ffffffff81076c8b 00000de2161a8680
[ 737.662476] ffff880117089800 0000000000000001 000000000000000a ffff880114ee5dc0
[ 737.670935] Call Trace:
[ 737.673978] [] dump_stack+0x63/0x82
[ 737.679913] [] __warn+0xcb/0xf0
[ 737.685464] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
[ 737.692108] [] perf_event_read+0x173/0x180
[ 737.698673] [] perf_read+0xcf/0x300
[ 737.704586] [] ? __do_page_fault+0x1f9/0x4b0
[ 737.711333] [] __vfs_read+0x28/0x110
[ 737.717358] [] ? security_file_permission+0xa0/0xc0
[ 737.724770] [] ? rw_verify_area+0x4e/0xb0
[ 737.731233] [] vfs_read+0x95/0x140
[ 737.737062] [] SyS_read+0x49/0xa0
[ 737.742785] [] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad
[ 737.750099] ---[ end trace e20d5745edd63baa ]---