Fix for bug#20390 "SELECT FOR UPDATE does not release locks
of untouched rows in full table scans". SELECT ... FOR UPDATE/LOCK IN SHARE MODE statements as well as UPDATE/DELETE statements which were executed using full table scan were not releasing locks on rows which didn't satisfy WHERE condition. This bug surfaced in 5.0 and affected NDB tables. (InnoDB tables intentionally don't support such unlocking in default mode). This problem occured because code implementing join didn't call handler::unlock_row() for rows which didn't satisfy part of condition attached to this particular table/level of nested loop. So we solve the problem adding this call. Note that we already had this call in place in 4.1 but it was lost (actually not quite correctly placed) when we have introduced nested joins. Also note that additional QA should be requested once this patch is pushed as interaction between handler::unlock_row() and many recent MySQL features such as subqueries, unions, views is not tested enough.
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