Asserting that unpickled exception is an exception (#705)

openwpm · Jul 1, 2020 · 627f440 · 627f440
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diff --git a/automation/TaskManager.py b/automation/TaskManager.py
@@ -338,7 +338,9 @@ def _check_failure_status(self) -> None:
                 "failure limit.", self.failure_status['CommandSequence']
             )
         if self.failure_status['ErrorType'] == 'CriticalChildException':
-            raise pickle.loads(self.failure_status['Exception'])
+            exc = pickle.loads(self.failure_status['Exception'])
+            assert type(exc) == BaseException
+            raise exc
 
     # CRAWLER COMMAND CODE