Problems (appear only under some circumstances): 
  1. we get a reference to a deleted table searching in the 
     thd->handler_tables_hash in the mysql_ha_read().

  2. DBUG_ASSERT(table->file->inited == handler::NONE); assert fails in the
     close_thread_table().

Fix: end open index scans and table scans and remove references to the 
tables from the handler tables hash. After this preparation it is safe 
to close the tables. The close can no longer fail on open index/table 
scans and the closed table will not be used again by handler functions.