Description of problem:

We reverted external-provisioner rebase in 4.17 because of OCPBUGS-37455.

We need to bring the rebase back, together with fixed that make sure OCPBUGS-37455 stays fixed.

So far we identified https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/sig-storage-lib-external-provisioner/pull/173 - it needs to be merged into lib-external-provisioner, then updated in the upstream external-provisioner sidecar and cherry-picked into the new rebase.

In addition, we need to make sure that topology is disabled in the vSphere CSI driver, like https://github.com/openshift/vmware-vsphere-csi-driver-operator/pull/241