Deferred task marked as failed if triggerer moves state to running
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Description
### Under which category would you file this issue?
Providers
### Apache Airflow version
3.3.0
### What happened and how to reproduce it?
Events from audit logs:
* 2026-08-13 18:25:07 - running
* 2026-08-13 18:25:13 - deferred
* 2026-08-13 18:25:18 - running
* 2026-08-13 18:25:20 - state mismatch - `Executor LocalExecutor(parallelism=200) reported that the task instance finished with state success, but the task instance's state attribute is running. Learn more: https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/troubleshooting.html#task-state-changed-externally`
* 2026-08-13 18:25:20 - failed
### What you think should happen instead?
The task should be allowed to complete by the triggerer.
### Operating System
linux
### Deployment
None
### Apache Airflow Provider(s)
_No response_
### Versions of Apache Airflow Providers
_No response_
### Official Helm Chart version
Not Applicable
### Kubernetes Version
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### Helm Chart configuration
_No response_
### Docker Image customizations
_No response_
### Anything else?
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### Are you willing to submit PR?
- [x] Yes I am willing to submit a PR!
### Code of Conduct
- [x] I agree to follow this project's [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
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