The vulnerability description seems to be lacking an explanation why the /proc/$PID/exe symlink is so special and why using the #!/proc/self/exe hashbang will w

The vulnerability description seems to be lacking an explanation why the /proc/$PID/exe symlink is so special and why using the #!/proc/self/exe hashbang will work while using #!/usr/sbin/runc probably won't. Am I right that the proc filesystem in proc_exe_link() fills the file_operations struct in a way that causes open() not to go through a dereferencing procedure using the filesystem but just open the file used to run the executable?