CSI controller pods are in a CrashLoopBackOff with "failed to read config Error: 10:32: unknown escape sequence" on Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4

Issue

During installation of VSphere cluster Storage Operator is degraded with "csi-driver-controller" and "csi-driver-node" pods in CrashLoopBackOff state.

The error of the "csi-driver" container of the "csi-driver-controller" pod is the below:

"msg":"failed to run the driver. Err: +10:32: unknown escape sequence","TraceId":"d3b1889e-8f0f-4f8a-b34e-e6adc0258898","stacktrace":"sigs.k8s.io/vsphere-csi-driver/v3/pkg/csi/service.(*vsphereCSIDriver).Run\n\t/go/src/github.com/kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver/pkg/csi/service/driver.go:203\nmain.main\n\t/go/src/github.com/kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver/cmd/vsphere-csi/main.go:96\nruntime.main\n\t/usr/lib/golang/src/runtime/proc.go:271"}