Cherry-pick 398d06e3

Fixed initially in #3725

The target attribute is effectively checked for null beforehand so this
additional defensive check can be removed.

Closes gh-4567

spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/properties/ConfigurationPropertiesBindingPostProcessor.java

@@ -297,10 +297,7 @@ public class ConfigurationPropertiesBindingPostProcessor implements BeanPostProc
 			factory.bindPropertiesToTarget();
 		}
 		catch (Exception ex) {
-			String targetClass = "[unknown]";
-			if (target != null) {
-				ClassUtils.getShortName(target.getClass());
-			}
+			String targetClass = ClassUtils.getShortName(target.getClass());
 			throw new BeanCreationException(beanName, "Could not bind properties to "
 					+ targetClass + " (" + getAnnotationDetails(annotation) + ")", ex);
 		}