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If you use a single-threaded spinner you don't need to use mutex because the callbacks will be called sequentially, therefore only one callback will be reading or writing the variable at a time.

You can read more about it here:

http://wiki.ros.org/roscpp/Overview/Callbacks%20and%20Spinning