This bug could manifest itself at the first execution of prepared statement
created for queries using a materialized view defined as union. A crash
could happen for sure if the query contained a condition pushable into
the view and this condition was over the column defined via a complex string
expression requiring implicit conversion from one charset to another for
some of its sub-expressions. The bug could cause crashes when executing
PS for some other queries whose optimization needed building clones for
such expressions.

This bug was introduced in the patch for MDEV-29988 where the class
Item_direct_ref_to_item was added. The implementations of the virtual
methods get_copy() and build_clone() were invalid for the class and this
could cause crashes after the method build_clone() was called for
expressions containing objects of the Item_direct_ref_to_item type.

Approved by Sergei Golubchik <serg@mariadb.com>