Cause
Join tmp table inserts null row because of OUTER JOIN, that's
expected. Since `multi_update::prepare2()` converted
`Item_temptable_rowid` into `Item_field` (28dbdf3)
`multi_update::send_data()` accesses join tmp record directly and
treats it as a normal row ignoring null status of ref field. NULL ref
field is then treated as normal in `multi_update::do_updates()` which
tries to position updated table by reference 0.
Note that reference 0 may be valid reference and the first row of
table can be wrongly updated (see multi_update.test).
Fix
Do not add row into multi-update tmp table in case of null ref
field. Join tmp table does not have null_row status at this time (as
well as `STATUS_NULL_ROW`) and cannot be skipped by these properties
(see first comment in multi_update::send_data()). But it has all null
fields (including the ref field).
preserve positions if the multi-update join is using tmp table:
* store positions in the tmp table if needed
JOIN::add_fields_for_current_rowid()
* take positions from the tmp table, not from file->position():
multi_update::prepare2()