After upgrading the OCP cluster from 4.14.22 to 4.15.11 customer started to see the aws-efs-csi-driver-controller pods in crash look back off status in the openshift-cluster-csi-drivers namespace

OCP 4.15.11
AWS EFS CSI Driver v1.7.0

It happens all the time in customer environment    

1. Upgrade OCP from 4.14 to 4.15, AWS driver version that comes with 4.15 is v1.7.0, while with 4.14 was v1.5.3
2. Try to provision a new volume with AWS EFS CSI driver

Provisioning fails with an "invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference"

Provisioning should work without issues 

Issue described seems similar to what was reported in https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-efs-csi-driver/issues/1164 and https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-efs-csi-driver/issues/1173
PR with the fix was https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-efs-csi-driver/pull/1167 but it wasn't merged
According to https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-efs-csi-driver/issues/1164#issuecomment-1806237765, this was already fixed in v.1.7.1 but this version of the driver isn't available in OCP 4.15.