table and view...

Invalid memory reads after a query referencing MyISAM table
multiple times with write lock. Invalid memory reads may
lead to server crash, valgrind warnings, incorrect values
in INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES.{TABLE_ROWS, DATA_LENGTH,
INDEX_LENGTH, ...}.

This may happen when one of the table instances gets closed
after a query, e.g. out of slots in open tables cache. UNION,
MERGE and VIEW are irrelevant.

The problem was that MyISAM didn't restore state info
pointer to default value.