[3.15] GH-153809: Untrack TaskObj from GC before calling unregister_task (GH-154563) (#154665)

GH-153809: Untrack TaskObj from GC before calling unregister_task (GH-154563)
(cherry picked from commit 5062427)

Co-authored-by: Sergey Miryanov <sergey.miryanov@gmail.com>

Author: miss-islington

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-07-24-13-15-31.gh-issue-153809.JFA6GT.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix interpreter crash while deallocating objects of :class:`asyncio.Task` on
+free-threaded builds. Contributed by Sergey Miryanov.

Modules/_asynciomodule.c

@@ -2974,13 +2974,17 @@ TaskObj_dealloc(PyObject *self)
     if (PyObject_CallFinalizerFromDealloc(self) < 0) {
         return; // resurrected
     }
+    // Untrack the object before unregistering the task, since the
+    // latter can cause a stop-the-world pause, after which another
+    // thread might call the GC and reach the object while it is
+    // semi-deallocated but still tracked
+    PyObject_GC_UnTrack(self);
+
     // unregister the task after finalization so that
     // if the task gets resurrected, it remains registered
     unregister_task((TaskObj *)self);
 
     PyTypeObject *tp = Py_TYPE(self);
-    PyObject_GC_UnTrack(self);
-
     PyObject_ClearWeakRefs(self);
 
     (void)TaskObj_clear(self);