Fix serialize-messages=on DeadLetter inside DeadLetter bug (#7236)

* Fix serialize-messages=on DeadLetter inside DeadLetter bug

* Fix solution

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Co-authored-by: Aaron Stannard <aaron@petabridge.com>

src/core/Akka/Actor/ActorCell.cs

@@ -533,17 +533,23 @@ private Envelope SerializeAndDeserialize(Envelope envelope)
             object deserializedMsg;
             try
             {
-                deserializedMsg = SerializeAndDeserializePayload(envelope.Message);
+                deserializedMsg = SerializeAndDeserializePayload(unwrapped);
             }
             catch (Exception e)
             {
                 throw new SerializationException($"Failed to serialize and deserialize payload object [{unwrapped.GetType()}]. Envelope: [{envelope}], Actor type: [{Actor.GetType()}]", e);
             }
 
-            // special case handling for DeadLetters
-            return envelope.Message is DeadLetter deadLetter 
-                ? new Envelope(new DeadLetter(deserializedMsg, deadLetter.Sender, deadLetter.Recipient), envelope.Sender) 
-                : new Envelope(deserializedMsg, envelope.Sender);
+            // Check that this message was ever wrapped
+            if (ReferenceEquals(envelope.Message, unwrapped))
+                return new Envelope(deserializedMsg, envelope.Sender);
+
+            // In the case above this one, we're able to deserialize the message, and we returned that
+            // (a new copy of the message), however, when we're dealing with wrapped messages, it's impossible to
+            // reconstruct the russian dolls together again, so we just return the original envelope.
+            // We guarantee that we can de/serialize in innermost message, but we can not guarantee to return
+            // a new copy.
+            return envelope;
         }
         #nullable restore
 

src/core/Akka/Event/DeadLetter.cs

@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ public sealed class DeadLetter : AllDeadLetters
         /// </exception>
         public DeadLetter(object message, IActorRef sender, IActorRef recipient) : base(message, sender, recipient)
         {
+            System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(message is not DeadLetter, "DeadLetter inside DeadLetter");
             if (sender == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(sender), "DeadLetter sender may not be null");
             if (recipient == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(recipient), "DeadLetter recipient may not be null");
         }