In case of 'CREATE VIEW' subselect transformation does not happen(see JOIN::prepare).
During fix_fields Item_row may call is_null() method for its arugmens which
leads to item calculation(wrong subselect in our case as
transformation did not happen before). This is_null() call
does not make sence for 'CREATE VIEW'.
Note:
Only Item_row is affected because other items don't call is_null() 
during fix_fields() for arguments.