diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-09-30-14-57-19.gh-issue-139116.nlVf40.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-09-30-14-57-19.gh-issue-139116.nlVf40.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..00692e97c44fb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-09-30-14-57-19.gh-issue-139116.nlVf40.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Prevent a deadlock when multiple threads start, stop and use :mod:`tracemalloc`
+simultaneously.
diff --git a/Python/tracemalloc.c b/Python/tracemalloc.c
index 7066a214f1065b..7a0853b6a07f55 100644
--- a/Python/tracemalloc.c
+++ b/Python/tracemalloc.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ static int _PyTraceMalloc_TraceRef(PyObject *op, PyRefTracerEvent event,
    the GIL held from PyMem_RawFree(). It cannot acquire the lock because it
    would introduce a deadlock in _PyThreadState_DeleteCurrent(). */
 #define tables_lock _PyRuntime.tracemalloc.tables_lock
-#define TABLES_LOCK() PyMutex_LockFlags(&tables_lock, _Py_LOCK_DONT_DETACH)
+#define TABLES_LOCK() PyMutex_Lock(&tables_lock)
 #define TABLES_UNLOCK() PyMutex_Unlock(&tables_lock)