examples: add an example plugin of an eve filetype

This is an example of what adding plugin examples to the Suricata repo
could look like.

This plugin is an example plugin for an EVE filetype. It could be
extended to support outputs like Redis, syslog, etc.

There is one issue with adding plugins like this to an autotools
project, the project can't be built with --disable-shared, which is
more of an autotools limitation, and not really a Suricata issue.
Suricata built with --disable-shared will load plugins just fine.

Note that the examples directory was added as DIST_SUBDIRS as we don't
want normal builds to recurse into it and attempt to build the plugin,
its just an example, but we still need to keep distcheck happy.

.github/workflows/builds.yml

@@ -288,6 +288,18 @@ jobs:
           test -e /usr/local/lib/suricata/python/suricata/update/configs/modify.conf
           test -e /usr/local/lib/suricata/python/suricata/update/configs/threshold.in
           test -e /usr/local/lib/suricata/python/suricata/update/configs/update.yaml
+      - name: Build C json filetype plugin
+        working-directory: examples/plugins/c-json-filetype
+        run: make
+      - name: Check C json filetype plugin
+        run: test -e examples/plugins/c-json-filetype/.libs/json-filetype.so.0.0.0
+      - name: Installing headers and library
+        run: |
+          make install-headers
+          make install-library
+      - name: Test plugin build with Makefile.example
+        working-directory: examples/plugins/c-json-filetype
+        run: PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH make -f Makefile.example
 
   almalinux-9-templates:
     name: AlmaLinux 9 Test Templates

Makefile.am

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = ChangeLog COPYING LICENSE suricata.yaml.in \
 	     scripts/generate-images.sh
 SUBDIRS = $(HTP_DIR) rust src qa rules doc contrib etc python ebpf \
           $(SURICATA_UPDATE_DIR)
+DIST_SUBDIRS = examples/plugins/c-json-filetype $(SUBDIRS)
 
 CLEANFILES = stamp-h[0-9]*
 

configure.ac

@@ -2613,6 +2613,8 @@ AC_CONFIG_FILES(suricata.yaml etc/Makefile etc/suricata.logrotate etc/suricata.s
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(python/Makefile python/suricata/config/defaults.py)
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(ebpf/Makefile)
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(libsuricata-config)
+AC_CONFIG_FILES(examples/plugins/c-json-filetype/Makefile)
+
 AC_OUTPUT
 
 SURICATA_BUILD_CONF="Suricata Configuration:

examples/plugins/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Example Plugins
+
+## c-json-filetype
+
+An example plugin of an EVE/JSON filetype plugin. This type of plugin
+is useful if you want to send EVE output to custom destinations.

examples/plugins/c-json-filetype/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+*.so
+*.la

examples/plugins/c-json-filetype/Makefile.am

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+plugindir = ${libdir}/suricata/plugins
+
+if BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARY
+plugin_LTLIBRARIES = json-filetype.la
+json_filetype_la_LDFLAGS = -module -shared
+json_filetype_la_SOURCES = filetype.c
+
+json_filetype_la_CPPFLAGS = -I$(abs_top_srcdir)/rust/gen -I$(abs_top_srcdir)/rust/dist
+
+else
+
+all-local:
+	@echo
+	@echo "Shared library support must be enabled to build plugins."
+	@echo
+
+endif

examples/plugins/c-json-filetype/Makefile.example

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+SRCS :=		filetype.c
+
+LIBSURICATA_CONFIG ?= libsuricata-config
+
+CPPFLAGS +=	`$(LIBSURICATA_CONFIG) --cflags`
+CPPFLAGS +=	-DSURICATA_PLUGIN -I.
+CPPFLAGS +=	"-D__SCFILENAME__=\"$(*F)\""
+
+OBJS :=		$(SRCS:.c=.o)
+
+filetype.so: $(OBJS)
+	$(CC) -fPIC -shared -o $@ $(OBJS)
+
+%.o: %.c
+	$(CC) -fPIC $(CPPFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<
+
+clean:
+	rm -f *.o *.so *~

examples/plugins/c-json-filetype/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+# Example EVE Filetype Plugin
+
+## Building
+
+If in the Suricata source directory, this plugin can be built by
+running `make` and installed with `make install`.
+
+Note that Suricata must have been built without `--disable-shared`.
+
+## Building Standalone
+
+The file `Makefile.example` is an example of how you might build a
+plugin that is distributed separately from the Suricata source code.
+
+It has the following dependencies:
+
+- Suricata is installed
+- The Suricata library is installed: `make install-library`
+- The Suricata development headers are installed: `make install-headers`
+- The program `libsuricata-config` is in your path (installed with
+  `make install-library`)
+
+The run: `make -f Makefile.example`
+
+Before building this plugin you will need to build and install Suricata from the
+git master branch and install the development tools and headers:
+
+- `make install-library`
+- `make install-headers`
+
+then make sure the newly installed tool `libsuricata-config` can be
+found in your path, for example:
+```
+libsuricata-config --cflags
+```
+
+Then a simple `make` should build this plugin.
+
+Or if the Suricata installation is not in the path, a command like the following
+can be used:
+
+```
+PATH=/opt/suricata/bin:$PATH make
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+To run the plugin, first add the path to the plugin you just compiled to
+your `suricata.yaml`, for example:
+```
+plugins:
+  - /usr/lib/suricata/plugins/json-filetype.so
+```
+
+Then add an output for the plugin:
+```
+outputs:
+  - eve-log:
+      enabled: yes
+      filetype: json-filetype-plugin
+      threaded: true
+      types:
+        - dns
+        - tls
+        - http
+```
+
+In the example above we use the name specified in the plugin as the `filetype`
+and specify that all `dns`, `tls` and `http` log entries should be sent to the
+plugin.
+
+## Details
+
+This plugin demonstrates a Suricata JSON/EVE output plugin
+(file-type). The idea of a Suricata EVE output plugin is to provide a
+file like interface for the handling of rendered JSON logs. This is
+useful for custom destinations not builtin to Suricata or if the
+formatted JSON requires some post-processing.
+
+Note: EVE output plugins are not that useful just for reformatting the
+JSON output as the plugin does need to handle writing to a file once
+the file type has been delegated to the plugin.
+
+### Registering a Plugin
+
+All Suricata plugins make themselves known to Suricata by using a
+function named `SCPluginRegister` which is called after Suricata loads
+the plugin shared object file. This function must return a `SCPlugin`
+struct which contains basic information about the plugin.  For
+example:
+
+```c
+const SCPlugin PluginRegistration = {
+    .name = "eve-filetype",
+    .author = "Jason Ish",
+    .license = "GPLv2",
+    .Init = TemplateInit,
+};
+
+const SCPlugin *SCPluginRegister() {
+    return &PluginRegistration;
+}
+```
+
+### Initializing a Plugin
+
+After the plugin has been registered, the `Init` callback will be called. This
+is where the plugin will set itself up as a specific type of plugin such as an
+EVE output, or a capture method.
+
+This plugins registers itself as an EVE file type using the
+`SCRegisterEveFileType` struct. To register as an EVE file type the
+following must be provided:
+
+* name: This is the name of the output which will be used in the eve filetype
+  field in `suricata.yaml` to enable this output.
+* Init: The callback called when the output is "opened".
+* Deinit: The callback called the output is "closed".
+* ThreadInit: Callback called to initialize per thread data (if threaded).
+* ThreadDeinit: Callback called to deinitialize per thread data (if threaded).
+* Write: The callback called when an EVE record is to be "written".
+
+Please see the code in `filetype.c` for more details about this functions.