'smartctl' release 7.1 does not report 'Error Counter logging'

Issue

• After migrating the systems from RHEL 6 to RHEL 8.6, the smartctl command is no longer showing 'Error Counter logging' for Samsung PM1643a SSD disks:

  $ smartctl -a /dev/sda
  [...]
  === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
  SMART Health Status: OK
  Current Drive Temperature:     36 C
  Drive Trip Temperature:        71 C
  Elements in grown defect list: 0
  Error Counter logging not supported         <---
  Device does not support Self Test logging
  

• The RHEL 6 and upstream smartmontools package shows following 'Error counter log' information:

  $ smartctl -a /dev/sda
  [...]
  === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
  SMART Health Status: OK        
  Percentage used endurance indicator: 2%
  Current Drive Temperature:     36 C
  Drive Trip Temperature:        71 C
  
  Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 10522:47
  Manufactured in week 02 of year 2020
  Accumulated start-stop cycles:  226
  Specified load-unload count over device lifetime:  0
  Accumulated load-unload cycles:  0
  Elements in grown defect list: 0
  
  Error counter log:                 <-----
             Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction     Gigabytes    Total
                 ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm      processed    uncorrected
             fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9 bytes]  errors
  read:          0        0         0         0          0      31967.069           0
  write:         0        0         0         0          0    6210021.542           0
  
  Non-medium error count:       21
  
  Pending defect count:0 Pending Defects