Edward Kmett\'s exceptions library does not provide a MonadMask instance for ExceptT.
Ben Gamari once asked about this and then concluded that it was explained
It seems it's no longer true since exceptions v0.9.0 which has been uploaded to the hackage 25 Feb 2018.
P.S. 0.9.0 is considered deprecated, 0.10.0 is recommended to use (see http://hackage.haskell.org/package/exceptions-0.10.0/changelog).