Before the fix next-key lock was requested only if a record was
delete-marked for locking unique search in RR isolation level.
There can be several delete-marked records for the same unique key,
that's why InnoDB scans the records until eighter non-delete-marked record
is reached or all delete-marked records with the same unique key are
scanned.
For range scan next-key locks are used for RR to protect scanned range from
inserting new records by other transactions. And this is the reason of why
next-key locks are used for delete-marked records for unique searches.
If a record is not delete-marked, the requested lock type was "not-gap".
When a record is not delete-marked during lock request by trx 1, and
some other transaction holds conflicting lock, trx 1 creates waiting
not-gap lock on the record and suspends. During trx 1 suspending the
record can be delete-marked. And when the lock is granted on conflicting
transaction commit or rollback, its type is still "not-gap". So we have
"not-gap" lock on delete-marked record for RR. And this let some other
transaction to insert some record with the same unique key when trx 1 is
not committed, what can cause isolation level violation.
The fix is to set next-key locks for both delete-marked and
non-delete-marked records for unique search in RR.